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HistoryAug 08, 2024 - 2:36 p.m.

CVE-2024-41942 JupyterHub has a privilege escalation vulnerability with the `admin:users` scope

2024-08-0814:36:44
CWE-274
GitHub_M
github.com
3
jupyterhub
privilege escalation
vulnerability
admin:users
scope
version 4.1.6
version 5.1.0
permissions
cve-2024-41942

CVSS3

7.2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

AI Score

7.2

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

28.5%

SSVC

Exploitation

none

Automatable

no

Technical Impact

partial

JupyterHub is software that allows one to create a multi-user server for Jupyter notebooks. Prior to versions 4.1.6 and 5.1.0, if a user is granted the admin:users scope, they may escalate their own privileges by making themselves a full admin user. The impact is relatively small in that admin:users is already an extremely privileged scope only granted to trusted users.
In effect, admin:users is equivalent to admin=True, which is not intended. Note that the change here only prevents escalation to the built-in JupyterHub admin role that has unrestricted permissions. It does not prevent users with e.g. groups permissions from granting themselves or other users permissions via group membership, which is intentional. Versions 4.1.6 and 5.1.0 fix this issue.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "vendor": "jupyterhub",
    "product": "jupyterhub",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "< 4.1.6"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": ">= 5.0.0, < 5.1.0"
      }
    ]
  }
]

CVSS3

7.2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

AI Score

7.2

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

28.5%

SSVC

Exploitation

none

Automatable

no

Technical Impact

partial