Improper Privilege Management Affecting accesscontrol package, versions [,7.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-ACCESSCONTROL-8342715
  • published5 Nov 2024
  • disclosed4 Nov 2024
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 4 Nov 2024

CVE-2024-51734  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade AccessControl to version 7.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Privilege Management due to the improper enforcement of access controls in the UserFolder component. An attacker can delete user data without proper authorization.

CVSS Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1