CVE-2021-41189

Summary

CVECVE-2021-41189
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-10-29 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-11-03 12:47:00 UTC
DescriptionDSpace is an open source turnkey repository application. In version 7.0, any community or collection administrator can escalate their permission up to become system administrator. This vulnerability only exists in 7.0 and does not impact 6.x or below. This issue is patched in version 7.1. As a workaround, users of 7.0 may temporarily disable the ability for community or collection administrators to manage permissions or workflows settings.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-863

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Duraspace Dspace 7.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Merge pull request from GHSA-cf2j-vf36-c6w8 · DSpace/DSpace@c3bea16 · GitHub MISC github.com
REST service returns wrong object for the "Anonymous" group · Issue #7928 · DSpace/DSpace · GitHub MISC github.com
Fix for GHSA-cf2j-vf36-c6w8 · DSpace/DSpace@277b499 · GitHub MISC github.com
Communities and collections administrators can escalate their privilege up to system administrator · Advisory · DSpace/DSpace · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 980119 Java (maven) Security Update for org.dspace:dspace-api (GHSA-cf2j-vf36-c6w8)

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