CVE-2022-31007

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    CVE-2022-31007

    Published: 31 May 2022Last Modified: 12 Aug 2026

    Summary: Privilege escalation from administrator in eLabFTW

    Details: eLabFTW is an electronic lab notebook manager for research teams. Prior to version 4.3.0, a vulnerability allows an authenticated user with an administrator role in a team to assign itself system administrator privileges within the application, or create a new system administrator account. The issue has been corrected in eLabFTW version 4.3.0. In the context of eLabFTW, an administrator is a user account with certain privileges to manage users and content in their assigned team/teams. A system administrator account can manage all accounts, teams and edit system-wide settings within the application. The impact is not deemed as high, as it requires the attacker to have access to an administrator account. Regular user accounts cannot exploit this to gain admin rights. A workaround for one if the issues is removing the ability of administrators to create accounts.

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Affected versions

    4.3.0-beta5
    4.3.0-beta4
    4.3.0-beta3
    4.3.0-beta2
    4.3.0-beta
    4.3.0-alpha

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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