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High · 7.5 CVE-2024-22409 EUVD-2024-19962

Default Privileges allow for high level operations for low privileged users in datahub

Published Jan 16, 2024 · Updated Jun 17, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

DataHub is an open-source metadata platform. In affected versions a low privileged user could remove a user, edit group members, or edit another user's profile information. The default privileges gave too many broad permissions to low privileged users. These have been constrained in PR #9067 to prevent abuse. This issue can result in privilege escalation for lower privileged users up to admin privileges, potentially, if a group with admin privileges exists. May not impact instances that have modified default privileges. This issue has been addressed in datahub version 0.12.1. Users are advised to upgrade.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
datahub-project datahub < 0.12.1 —

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