Privilege Escalation Affecting org.neo4j:neo4j-cypher package, versions [,4.2.8)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.1% (43rd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGNEO4J-1535217
  • published 30 Jul 2021
  • disclosed 30 Jul 2021
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade org.neo4j:neo4j-cypher to version 4.2.8 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Privilege Escalation. A failure in resetting the security context in some transaction actions in Neo4j Graph Database could allow authenticated users to execute commands with elevated privileges.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
8.8 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High
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NVD

8.8 high