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Privilege escalation

Description

Due to an insecure role configuration, it is possible to obtain administrative access or privileges using a standard user account.

Impact

Get access to information and operations that should not be available for the current role.

Recommendation

The roles must be controlled with users tokens or the exposure of user ID must be avoided.

Threat

Authenticated attacker from the Internet.

Expected Remediation Time

⌚ 60 minutes.

Score

Default score using CVSS 3.1. It may change depending on the context of the src.

Base

  • Attack vector: N
  • Attack complexity: H
  • Privileges required: H
  • User interaction: N
  • Scope: C
  • Confidentiality: H
  • Integrity: H
  • Availability: H

Temporal

  • Exploit code madurity: X
  • Remediation level: X
  • Report confidence: X

Result

  • Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:X/RL:X/RC:X
  • Score:
    • Base: 8.0
    • Temporal: 8.0
  • Severity:
    • Base: High
    • Temporal: High

Score 4.0

Default score using CVSS 4.0 . It may change depending on the context of the src.

Base 4.0

  • Attack vector: N
  • Attack complexity: H
  • Attack Requirements: N
  • Privileges required: H
  • User interaction: N
  • Confidentiality (VC): H
  • Integrity (VI): H
  • Availability (VA): H
  • Confidentiality (SC): L
  • Integrity (SI): L
  • Availability (SA): L

Threat 4.0

  • Exploit madurity: X

Result 4.0

  • Vector string: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L/E:X
  • Score:
    • CVSS-BT: 7.5
  • Severity:
    • CVSS-BT: High

Requirements

Fixes

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