Privilege Escalation

Katello is vulnerable to privilege escalation. The library does not check for permission for the updateroles function, allowing a malicious user to upgrade a user account to administrator level privileges...

Katello update_roles Privilege Escalation (CVE-2013-2143)

A privilege escalation vulnerability has been reported in Katello. The vulnerability is due to a missing authorization at the "updateroles" action of "users" controller. A remote authenticated attacker may exploit this vulnerability to gain administrator privileges...

Authorization

The users controller in Katello 1.5.0-14 and earlier, and Red Hat Satellite, does not check authorization for the updateroles action, which allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges by setting a user account to an administrator account...