Improper Privilege Management Affecting zot package, versions <2.1.2-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (29th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-WOLFILATEST-ZOT-15423305
  • published5 Mar 2026
  • disclosed17 Jan 2025

Introduced: 17 Jan 2025

CVE-2025-23208  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Wolfi zot to version 2.1.2-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream zot package and not the zot package as distributed by Wolfi. See How to fix? for Wolfi relevant fixed versions and status.

zot is a production-ready vendor-neutral OCI image registry. The group data stored for users in the boltdb database (meta.db) is an append-list so group revocations/removals are ignored in the API. SetUserGroups is alled on login, but instead of replacing the group memberships, they are appended. This may be due to some conflict with the group definitions in the config file, but that wasn't obvious to me if it were the case. Any Zot configuration that relies on group-based authorization will not respect group remove/revocation by an IdP. This issue has been addressed in version 2.1.2. All users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1