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Medium · 6.9 CVE-2026-29195 EUVD-2026-10160GHSA-ch3w-9456-38v3GO-2026-4654

Netmaker: Privilege Escalation from Admin to Super-Admin via User Update

Published Mar 7, 2026 · Updated Mar 9, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Netmaker makes networks with WireGuard. Prior to version 1.5.0, the user update handler (PUT /api/users/{username}) lacks validation to prevent an admin-role user from assigning the super-admin role during account updates. While the code correctly blocks an admin from assigning the admin role to another user, it does not include an equivalent check for the super-admin role. This issue has been patched in version 1.5.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
gravitl netmaker < 1.5.0 —

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.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260317T205859-150000.1.152.1 SUSE-SU-2026:1042-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/gravitl/netmaker < 1.5.0 1.5.0 GHSA-ch3w-9456-38v3

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