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GHSA-CMM8-GW4M-26CW

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-07-25 15:30 – Updated: 2025-08-04 20:26

Summary

Withdrawn Advisory: JHipster allows privilege escalation via a modified authorities parameter

Details

Withdrawn Advisory

This advisory has been withdrawn because the original report was found to be invalid. This link is maintained to preserve external references. For more information, see https://groups.google.com/g/jhipster-dev/c/ATSlWkEjw2w.

Original Description

Severity ?

2.9 (Low)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

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        "name": "generator-jhipster"
      },
      "ranges": [
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              "introduced": "0"
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    "CVE-2025-43712"
  ],
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      "CWE-451"
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    "github_reviewed_at": "2025-07-25T17:19:20Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2025-07-25T13:15:29Z",
    "severity": "LOW"
  },
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  "id": "GHSA-cmm8-gw4m-26cw",
  "modified": "2025-08-04T20:26:16Z",
  "published": "2025-07-25T15:30:53Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-43712"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://firecompass.com/cve-2025-43712-jhipster-platform-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-discovered-by-firecompass-research-added-to-nist"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/jhipster/generator-jhipster"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/jhipster/generator-jhipster/releases"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
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    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://medium.com/@hritikgodara/cve-2025-43712-privilege-escalation-via-response-manipulation-in-the-jhipster-platform-5e18c0434def"
    }
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  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Withdrawn Advisory: JHipster allows privilege escalation via a modified authorities parameter",
  "withdrawn": "2025-08-04T20:26:16Z"
}

CVE-2025-43712 (GCVE-0-2025-43712)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-25 00:00 – Updated: 2025-08-04 11:38 Disputed

Summary

JHipster before v.8.9.0 allows privilege escalation via a modified authorities parameter. Upon registering in the JHipster portal and logging in as a standard user, the authorities parameter in the response from the api/account endpoint contains the value ROLE_USER. By manipulating the authorities parameter and changing its value to ROLE_ADMIN, the privilege is successfully escalated to an Admin level. This allowed the access to all admin-related functionalities in the application. NOTE: this is disputed by the Supplier because there is no privilege escalation in the context of the JHipster backend (the report only demonstrates that, after using JHipster to generate an application, one can make a non-functional admin screen visible in the front end of that application).

Severity ?

2.9 (Low)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

CWE

CWE-451 - User Interface (UI) Misrepresentation of Critical Information

Assigner

mitre

References

URL

Tags

	https://github.com/jhipster/generator-jhipster/releases
	https://medium.com/@hritikgodara/cve-2025-43712-p…
	https://groups.google.com/g/jhipster-dev/c/ATSlWkEjw2w
	https://firecompass.com/cve-2025-43712-jhipster-p…

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	JHipster	JHipster	Unknown: 0 , < 8.9.0 (semver)

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.

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