# CVE-2026-55843: Snipe-IT: Improper Privilege Management

- Also known as: GHSA-J5G3-42WP-GQM3
- Severity: CVSS 7.0 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 8.6.0
- Published: 2026-07-10 · Updated: 2026-07-13

## Affected

- grokability snipe-it: fixed in 8.6.0
- snipe/snipe-it (Packagist): fixed in 8.6.0

## Description

Snipe-IT is an IT asset/license management system. Prior to 8.6.0, UsersController::update() passes a missing permission request field through NormalizePermissionsPayloadAction and PreserveUnauthorizedPrivilegedPermissionsAction in a way that can overwrite a target user’s permissions with a sparse result, allowing an administrator updating another administrator, or a user with users.edit updating a regular account, to remove the target’s administrative or granular permissions. This issue is fixed in version 8.6.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on grokability snipe-it, snipe/snipe-it, upgrade to a fixed version (8.6.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/grokability/snipe-it/security/advisories/GHSA-j5g3-42wp-gqm3
- https://github.com/grokability/snipe-it/commit/1cff2d67aabd00ee51d864c1d7fb717494c1d6ad
- https://github.com/grokability/snipe-it/releases/tag/v8.6.0

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