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Improper Access Control Affecting docassemble.webapp package, versions [1.4.53,1.4.97)

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.04% (10th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-DOCASSEMBLEWEBAPP-6347252
  • published 1 Mar 2024
  • disclosed 29 Feb 2024
  • credit Riyush Ghimire
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Introduced: 29 Feb 2024

CVE-2024-27292 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-284 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade docassemble.webapp to version 1.4.97 or higher.

Overview

docassemble.webapp is a The web application components of the docassemble system.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Access Control due to improper validation of user-supplied input through URL parameters. An attacker can gain unauthorized access to information on the system by manipulating URLs to bypass access controls.

Workaround

This vulnerability can be mitigated by manually applying the changes of 97f77dc and restarting the server.

References

CVSS Scores

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Snyk

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