In eLabFTW, if administrators can create users, users can too

Description

eLabFTW is an open source electronic lab notebook for research labs. In an eLabFTW system, one can configure who is allowed to create new user accounts. A vulnerability has been found starting in version 4.4.0 and prior to version 5.0.0 that allows regular users to create new, validated accounts in their team. If the system has anonymous access enabled (disabled by default) an unauthenticated user can create regular users in any team. This vulnerability has been fixed since version 5.0.0, released on February 17th 2024. Some workarounds are available. Disabling both options that allow *administrators* to create users will provide a mitigation. Additionally, disabling anonymous user access will stop anonymous access (including using existing access keys).

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.24% · top 85% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.4.

Weakness

• CWE-266: Incorrect Privilege Assignment (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-266 and its CVEs

Affected products

• elabftw · elabftw

  • affected >= 4.4.0, < 5.0.0

References (1)

• https://github.com/elabftw/elabftw/security/advisories/GHSA-v677-8x8p-636v (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRM

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2024-25633](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2024-25633.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2024-25633)

Record last updated 19 Aug 2024, 13:29 UTC.