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Security Advisories: GSA_kwCzR0hTQS1jZjJqLXZmMzYtYzZ3OM0WxA
Communities and collections administrators can escalate their privilege up to system administrator
Impact
Any community or collection administrator can escalate their permission up to become system administrator.
This vulnerability only existed in 7.0 and does not impact 6.x or below.
Patches
Fix is included in 7.1. Please upgrade to 7.1 at your earliest convenience.
Workarounds
In 7.0, temporarily disable the ability for community or collection administrators to manage permissions or workflows settings, i.e. set the following properties in your local.cfg / dspace.cfg file
core.authorization.collection-admin.policies = false
core.authorization.community-admin.policies = false
core.authorization.community-admin.collection.workflows = false
Once upgraded to 7.1, these settings can be safely reverted to the default values of true
.
References
Discovered during investigation of https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/7928
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Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: High
Classification: General
Published: over 2 years ago
Updated: over 1 year ago
CVSS Score: 7.2
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Identifiers: GHSA-cf2j-vf36-c6w8, CVE-2021-41189
References:
- https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/security/advisories/GHSA-cf2j-vf36-c6w8
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-41189
- https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/7928
- https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/commit/277b499a5cd3a4f5eb2370513a1b7e4ec2a6e041
- https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/commit/c3bea16ab911606e15ae96c97a1575e1ffb14f8a
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cf2j-vf36-c6w8
Blast Radius: 18.0
Affected Packages
maven:org.dspace:dspace-api
Dependent packages: 45Dependent repositories: 319
Downloads:
Affected Version Ranges: >= 7.0, < 7.1
Fixed in: 7.1
All affected versions:
All unaffected versions: 1.5.0, 1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.6.0, 1.6.1, 1.6.2, 1.7.0, 1.7.1, 1.7.2, 1.7.3, 1.8.0, 1.8.1, 1.8.2, 1.8.3, 7.1.1, 7.2.1, 7.6.1