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CVE-2021-41189GHSA-CF2J-VF36-C6W8

Communities and collections administrators can escalate their privilege up to system administrator

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Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 7.1
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

DSpace is an open source turnkey repository application. In version 7.0, any community or collection administrator can escalate their permission up to become system administrator. This vulnerability only exists in 7.0 and does not impact 6.x or below. This issue is patched in version 7.1. As a workaround, users of 7.0 may temporarily disable the ability for community or collection administrators to manage permissions or workflows settings.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • DSpace DSpace

    From 7.0 · fixed in 7.1

  • org.dspace:dspace-apiMaven

    From 7.0 · fixed in 7.1

References 4

GitHub · DSpace/DSpace