Access Restriction Bypass Affecting ghost package, versions >=4.0.0 <4.10.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.12% (48th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-GHOST-1325348
  • published 23 Jul 2021
  • disclosed 22 Jul 2021
  • credit Aden Yap Chuen Zhen, BAE Systems Applied Intelligence

How to fix?

Upgrade ghost to version 4.10.0 or higher.

Overview

ghost is a publishing platform

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. An error in the implementation of the limits service in 4.0.0 allows all authenticated users (including contributors) to view admin-level API keys via the integrations API endpoint, leading to a privilege escalation vulnerability.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

7.2 high