# CVE-2024-7143: Pulpcore: rbac permissions incorrectly assigned in tasks that create objects

- Also known as: GHSA-9M5J-4XX9-44J9, PYSEC-2026-1808
- Severity: CVSS 6.7 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-08-07 · Updated: 2026-06-02

## Affected

- pulp: through 3.56.0
- python3x-pulpcore: version range not reported
- python-pulpcore: version range not reported
- python-pulpcore: version range not reported
- python-pulpcore: version range not reported
- pulpcore (PyPI): through 3.56.0
- pulpcore (PyPI): through 3.56.0

## Description

A flaw was found in the Pulp package. When a role-based access control (RBAC) object in Pulp is set to assign permissions on its creation, it uses the `AutoAddObjPermsMixin` (typically the add_roles_for_object_creator method). This method finds the object creator by checking the current authenticated user. For objects that are created within a task, this current user is set by the first user with any permissions on the task object. This means the oldest user with model/domain-level task permissions will always be set as the current user of a task, even if they didn't dispatch the task. Therefore, all objects created in tasks will have their permissions assigned to this oldest user, and the creating user will receive nothing.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on pulp, python3x-pulpcore, python-pulpcore or the other affected packages, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6765
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-7143
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2300125
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9m5j-4xx9-44j9
- https://github.com/pulp/pulpcore/blob/93f241f34c503da0fbac94bdba739feda2636e12/pulpcore/tasking/_util.py#L108

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