CVE-2020-15248 (GCVE-0-2020-15248)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-11-23 19:40 – Updated: 2024-08-04 13:08
VLAI
Title
Privilege escalation by backend users assigned to the default "Publisher" system role
Summary
October is a free, open-source, self-hosted CMS platform based on the Laravel PHP Framework. In October CMS from version 1.0.319 and before version 1.0.470, backend users with the default "Publisher" system role have access to create & manage users where they can choose which role the new user has. This means that a user with "Publisher" access has the ability to escalate their access to "Developer" access. Issue has been patched in Build 470 (v1.0.470) & v1.1.1.
Severity
4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7626 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
octobercms october Affected: >= 1.0.319, < 1.0.470
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