Improper privilege management in jupyterhub - CVE-2024-41942

 

Improper privilege management in jupyterhub - CVE-2024-41942

Published: February 5, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU103634
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-41942
CWE-ID: CWE-269
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote privileged user to escalate privileges.

The vulnerability exists due to `admin:users` is equivalent to `admin=True`, which is not intended. A remote privileged user can escalate their own privileges by making themselves a full admin user


Affected software

jupyterhub
IBM Cognos Analytics

How to mitigate CVE-2024-41942

Install updates from vendor's website.

jupyterhub - addressed in versions 4.1.6, 5.1.0
IBM Cognos Analytics - addressed in versions 11.2.4 IF5, 12.0.4 IF2

External References

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