CVE-2023-32079

high

Published 2023-08-24 · Modified 2026-03-03

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CVSS v3

8.8

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.8

Description

Netmaker Vulnerable to Privilege Escalation From Non Admin To Admin User in github.com/gravitl/netmaker

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

92%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

Mitigation details

Source: GitHub Security Advisory · View original ↗ · CC-BY-4.0

<h3>Netmaker Vulnerable to Privilege Escalation From Non Admin To Admin User</h3> Impact A Mass assignment vulnerability was found allowing a non-admin user to escalate privileges to admin user. Patches Issue is patched in 0.17.1, and fixed in 0.18.6+. If Users are using 0.17.1, they should run "docker pull gravitl/netmaker:v0.17.1" and "docker-compose up -d". This will switch them to the patched…

Workaround

s If using 0.17.1, can just pull the latest docker image of backend and restart server. References

<h3>Netmaker Vulnerable to Privilege Escalation From Non Admin To Admin User</h3>

Impact

A Mass assignment vulnerability was found allowing a non-admin user to escalate privileges to admin user.

Patches

Issue is patched in 0.17.1, and fixed in 0.18.6+.

If Users are using 0.17.1, they should run "docker pull gravitl/netmaker:v0.17.1" and "docker-compose up -d". This will switch them to the patched users

If users are using v0.18.0-0.18.5, they should upgrade to v0.18.6 or later.

Workarounds

If using 0.17.1, can just pull the latest docker image of backend and restart server.

References

Credit to Project Discovery, and in particular https://github.com/rootxharsh , https://github.com/iamnoooob, and https://github.com/projectdiscovery

Apply commands

bash fix

Upgrade github.com/gravitl/netmaker to 0.18.6

go get github.com/gravitl/netmaker@0.18.6

Affected

Vendor	Product	Version
go	github.com/gravitl/netmaker	`>= 0.18.0, < 0.18.6`
go	github.com/gravitl/netmaker	`< 0.17.1`

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
Go	github.com/gravitl/netmaker	`<0.17.1`	`0.17.1`
Go	github.com/gravitl/netmaker	`>=0.18.0,<0.18.6`	`0.18.6`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
netmaker	netmaker	`{"endExcluding":"0.17.1"}`	`0.17.1`

References

CWEs

CWE-915

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.