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CVE-2024-5685
Broken Function Level Authorization (BFLA) in snipe/snipe-it
High7.6EPSS 0.41%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Checkmarx
Description
Users with "User:edit" and "Self:api" permissions can promote or demote themselves or other users by performing changes to the group's memberships via API call.This issue affects snipe-it: from v4.6.17 through v6.4.1.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CheckmarxCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.41% · top 65% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.6.
Weakness
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Packagistsnipe/snipe-itGHSA-544r-fc65-v832 (opens in a new tab)
What to do
Solution: Update to version v6.4.2 to mitigate the issue.
References (5)
- https://github.com/snipe/snipe-it/pull/14745 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/snipe/snipe-it/commit/34f1ea1c0ecd403047cd1327569ee391a7201cc1 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/snipe/snipe-it/releases/tag/v6.4.2 (opens in a new tab)release-notesx_transferred
- https://devhub.checkmarx.com/cve-details/CVE-2024-5685/ (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_transferred
- https://advisory.checkmarx.net/?search=CVE-2024-5685 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_transferred
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 Advisory GHSA-544r-fc65-v832 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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