GHSA-cf2j-vf36-c6w8

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GHSA-cf2j-vf36-c6w8

Summary: Communities and collections administrators can escalate their privilege up to system administrator

Details: ### Impact Any community or collection administrator can escalate their permission up to become system administrator. This vulnerability only existed in 7.0 and does not impact 6.x or below. ### Patches Fix is included in [7.1](https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/releases/tag/dspace-7.1). Please upgrade to 7.1 at your earliest convenience. ### Workarounds In 7.0, temporarily disable the ability for community or collection administrators to manage permissions or workflows settings, i.e. set the following properties in your local.cfg / dspace.cfg file ``` core.authorization.collection-admin.policies = false core.authorization.community-admin.policies = false core.authorization.community-admin.collection.workflows = false ``` Once upgraded to 7.1, these settings can be safely reverted to the default values of `true`. ### References Discovered during investigation of https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/7928 ### For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: * Email us at [email protected]

References: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/security/advisories/GHSA-cf2j-vf36-c6w8, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-41189, https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/7928, https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/commit/277b499a5cd3a4f5eb2370513a1b7e4ec2a6e041, https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/commit/c3bea16ab911606e15ae96c97a1575e1ffb14f8a, https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace