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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2018-20301 EUVD-2022-1108GHSA-mrq8-53r4-3j5m

Permissive parameters and privilege escalation

Published Dec 20, 2018 · Updated Aug 5, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

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.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Hex coherence < 0.5.2 0.5.2 GHSA-mrq8-53r4-3j5m

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