GCVE-1-2025-0017

Vulnerability from gna-1 – Published: 2025-11-12 08:15 – Updated: 2025-11-28 07:22
VLAI?
Summary
Privilege escalation in UsersController::edit in Cerebrate Project (until version v1.29) allows an authenticated non-privileged user to escalate their privileges (e.g., obtain a higher role such as admin) via the user-edit endpoint by supplying or modifying role_id/organisation_id fields in the edit request.
Severity ?
9.4 (Critical)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
CWE
  • CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
cerebrate cerebrate Affected: < 1.30
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Credits
ENISA Sami Mokaddem (aka Graphman) 📸 Alexandre Dulaunoy 🎨
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