CVE-2022-41948
DHIS 2 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Description
DHIS 2 is an open source information system for data capture, management, validation, analytics and visualization. Affected versions are subject to a privilege escalation vulnerability. A DHIS2 user with authority to manage users can assign superuser privileges to themself by manually crafting an HTTP PUT request. Only users with the following DHIS2 user role authorities can exploit this vulnerability. Note that in many systems the only users with user admin privileges are also superusers. In these cases, the escalation vulnerability does not exist. The vulnerability is only exploitable by attackers who can authenticate as users with the user admin authority. As this is usually a small and relatively trusted set of users, exploit vectors will often be limited. DHIS2 administrators should upgrade to the following hotfix releases: 2.36.12.1, 2.37.8.1, 2.38.2.1, 2.39.0.1. The only known workaround to this issue is to avoid the assignment of the user management authority to any users until the patch has been applied.
INFO
Published Date :
Dec. 8, 2022, 11:15 p.m.
Last Modified :
Nov. 7, 2023, 3:53 a.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
Yes !
Impact Score :
5.9
Exploitability Score :
1.2
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
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CVE-2022-41948.
| URL | Resource |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/dhis2/dhis2-core/security/advisories/GHSA-59fm-8432-2426 | Third Party Advisory |
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CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Nov. 07, 2023
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed Description DHIS 2 is an open source information system for data capture, management, validation, analytics and visualization. Affected versions are subject to a privilege escalation vulnerability. A DHIS2 user with authority to manage users can assign superuser privileges to themself by manually crafting an HTTP PUT request. Only users with the following DHIS2 user role authorities can exploit this vulnerability. Note that in many systems the only users with user admin privileges are also superusers. In these cases, the escalation vulnerability does not exist. The vulnerability is only exploitable by attackers who can authenticate as users with the user admin authority. As this is usually a small and relatively trusted set of users, exploit vectors will often be limited. DHIS2 administrators should upgrade to the following hotfix releases: 2.36.12.1, 2.37.8.1, 2.38.2.1, 2.39.0.1. The only known workaround to this issue is to avoid the assignment of the user management authority to any users until the patch has been applied. DHIS 2 is an open source information system for data capture, management, validation, analytics and visualization. Affected versions are subject to a privilege escalation vulnerability. A DHIS2 user with authority to manage users can assign superuser privileges to themself by manually crafting an HTTP PUT request. Only users with the following DHIS2 user role authorities can exploit this vulnerability. Note that in many systems the only users with user admin privileges are also superusers. In these cases, the escalation vulnerability does not exist. The vulnerability is only exploitable by attackers who can authenticate as users with the user admin authority. As this is usually a small and relatively trusted set of users, exploit vectors will often be limited. DHIS2 administrators should upgrade to the following hotfix releases: 2.36.12.1, 2.37.8.1, 2.38.2.1, 2.39.0.1. The only known workaround to this issue is to avoid the assignment of the user management authority to any users until the patch has been applied. -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Dec. 12, 2022
Action Type Old Value New Value Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Changed Reference Type https://github.com/dhis2/dhis2-core/security/advisories/GHSA-59fm-8432-2426 No Types Assigned https://github.com/dhis2/dhis2-core/security/advisories/GHSA-59fm-8432-2426 Third Party Advisory Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:dhis2:dhis_2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 2.34.0 up to (excluding) 2.36.12.1 *cpe:2.3:a:dhis2:dhis_2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 2.37.0 up to (excluding) 2.37.8.1 *cpe:2.3:a:dhis2:dhis_2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 2.38.0 up to (excluding) 2.38.2.1 *cpe:2.3:a:dhis2:dhis_2:2.39.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
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specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or
weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2022-41948 is
associated with the following CWEs:
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification
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approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2022-41948
weaknesses.
Exploit Prediction
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0.10 }} 0.01%
score
0.42891
percentile