Improper Authorization Affecting com.yahoo.elide:elide-core package, versions [,4.5.14)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.1% (42nd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-COMYAHOOELIDE-561583
  • published 30 Mar 2020
  • disclosed 30 Mar 2020
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade com.yahoo.elide:elide-core to version 4.5.14 or higher.

Overview

com.yahoo.elide:elide-core is a library that lets you stand up a GraphQL/JSON-API web service with minimal effort.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Authorization. An adversary can "guess and check" the value of a model field they do not have access to assuming they can read at least one other field in the model.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

6.8 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Changed
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None
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NVD

6.5 medium