CVE-2024-25632
Unauthorised granting of administrator privileges over arbitrary teams under certain circumstances
In short
A vulnerability in eLabFTW allows regular users to gain administrator privileges in their team without authorization, and in some versions, even unauthenticated users could obtain admin access to any team. This is serious because administrators can manage users and sensitive research data.
Technical detail
The flaw enables privilege escalation through improper authorization checks in team administration functions. Regular team members can exploit this under specific configurations to elevate to administrator; in versions after v5.0.0, unauthenticated attackers may also gain arbitrary team admin access. System administrator accounts are not affected, but team-level compromise is possible.
Summary generated and translated by AI from the official description.
eLabFTW is an open source electronic lab notebook for research labs. In the context of eLabFTW, an administrator is a user account with certain privileges to manage users and content in their assigned team/teams. A user may be an administrator in one team and a regular user in another. The vulnerability allows a regular user to become administrator of a team where they are a member, under a reasonable configuration. Additionally, in eLabFTW versions subsequent to v5.0.0, the vulnerability may allow an initially unauthenticated user to gain administrative privileges over an arbitrary team. The vulnerability does not affect system administrator status. Users should upgrade to version 5.1.0. System administrators are advised to turn off local user registration, saml_team_create and not allow administrators to import users into teams, unless strictly required.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L
Affected products
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