Privilege Escalation Affecting spree_auth_devise package, versions < 1.1.6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (41st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUBY-SPREEAUTHDEVISE-20070
  • published20 Feb 2013
  • disclosed20 Feb 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Feb 2013

CVE-2013-2506  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-265  (opens in a new tab)

Overview

spree_auth_devise provides authentication and authorization services for use with spree by using Devise and CanCan.

Affected versions of this gem are vulnerable to unauthorized privileges being gained. The issue is triggered as certain input related to mass role assignment in app/models/spree/user.rb is not properly verified before being used to update a user. This may allow a remote attacker to assign arbitrary roles and gain elevated administrative privileges.

This vulnerability is related to spree_auth.

CVSS Scores

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