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High · 7.2 CVE-2021-41189 EUVD-2021-2336GHSA-cf2j-vf36-c6w8

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

Published Oct 29, 2021 · Updated Aug 4, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

DSpace is an open source turnkey repository application. In version 7.0, any community or collection administrator can escalate their permission up to become system administrator. This vulnerability only exists in 7.0 and does not impact 6.x or below. This issue is patched in version 7.1. As a workaround, users of 7.0 may temporarily disable the ability for community or collection administrators to manage permissions or workflows settings.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
DSpace DSpace >= 7.0, < 7.1 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven org.dspace:dspace-api >= 7.0, < 7.1 7.1 GHSA-cf2j-vf36-c6w8

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