CVE-2022-41948

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.

CVSS v3.0 7.2 HIGH

7.2^/10

CVSS v3.0 : HIGH

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.2 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required HIGH

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://github.com/dhis2/dhis2-core/security/advisories/GHSA-59fm-8432-2426	Third Party Advisory

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Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:dhis2:dhis_2:2.39.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:dhis2:dhis_2::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:dhis2:dhis_2::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:dhis2:dhis_2::::::::

Information

Published : 2022-12-08 15:15

Updated : 2022-12-12 10:24

NVD link : CVE-2022-41948

Mitre link : CVE-2022-41948

JSON object : View

CWE

CWE-269

Improper Privilege Management

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Products Affected

dhis2

dhis_2

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