FKIE_CVE-2021-38616

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2021-09-07 12:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 04:02
Severity
7.6 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In Eigen NLP 3.10.1, a lack of access control on the /auth/v1/user/{user-guid}/ user edition endpoint could permit any logged-in user to increase their own permissions via a user_permissions array in a PATCH request. A guest user could modify other users' profiles and much more.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://cds.thalesgroup.com/en/tcs-cert/CVE-2021-38616
cve@mitre.orghttps://eigentech.com/Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://excellium-services.com/cert-xlm-advisory/Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://excellium-services.com/cert-xlm-advisory/CVE-2021-38616Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://eigentech.com/Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://excellium-services.com/cert-xlm-advisory/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://excellium-services.com/cert-xlm-advisory/CVE-2021-38616Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
eigentech natural_language_processing 3.10.1
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