GHSA-mrq8-53r4-3j5m

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    GHSA-mrq8-53r4-3j5m

    Published: 10 Feb 2022Last Modified: 10 Dec 2025

    Summary: Permissive parameters and privilege escalation

    Details: An issue was discovered in Steve Pallen Coherence before 0.5.2 that is similar to a Mass Assignment vulnerability. In particular, "registration" endpoints (e.g., creating, editing, updating) allow users to update any coherence_fields data. For example, users can automatically confirm their accounts by sending the confirmed_at parameter with their registration request.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20301, https://github.com/smpallen99/coherence/issues/270, https://github.com/smpallen99/coherence

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: coherence

    Purl: pkg:hex/coherence

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.5.2

    Affected versions

    0.1.0
    0.1.1
    0.1.2
    0.1.3

    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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