Netmaker Vulnerable to Privilege Escalation From Non Admin To Admin User

Impact

A Mass assignment vulnerability was found allowing a non-admin user to escalate privileges to admin user.

Patches

Issue is patched in 0.17.1, and fixed in 0.18.6+.

If Users are using 0.17.1, they should run “docker pull gravitl/netmaker:v0.17.1” and “docker-compose up -d”. This will switch them to the patched users

If users are using v0.18.0-0.18.5, they should upgrade to v0.18.6 or later.

Workarounds

If using 0.17.1, can just pull the latest docker image of backend and restart server.

References

Credit to Project Discovery, and in particular https://github.com/rootxharsh , https://github.com/iamnoooob, and https://github.com/projectdiscovery