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CVE-2021-41189

Communities and collections administrators can escalate their privilege up to system administrator

CVSS 7.2 HIGHEPSS 2.0%CWE-863
Vexday Risk Score
21Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS 7.2EPSS 2.0%KEV nãoPoC Nuclei Metasploit Patch
Lifecycle
29 Oct 2021Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
DSpace 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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
DSpace · DSpace

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