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High · 7.3 CVE-2025-27101 EUVD-2025-7728

Broken Access Control in Opal filesystem's copy functionality exposes all user data

Published Mar 11, 2025 · Updated Mar 12, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Opal is OBiBa’s core database application for biobanks or epidemiological studies. Prior to version 5.1.1, when copying any parent directory to a folder in the /temp/ directory, all files in that parent directory are copied, including files which the user should not have access to. All users of the application are impacted, as this is exploitable by any user to reveal all files in the opal filesystem. This also means that low-privilege users such as DataShield users can retrieve the files of other users. Version 5.1.1 contains a patch for the issue.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
obiba opal < 5.1.1 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 opal No fix yet —

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