# CVE-2019-12794: Privilege escalation in n/a

> Organization admins can reset site admin credentials or use API keys to impersonate them, enabling privilege escalation in specific MISP configurations.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.6 (`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 11 Jun 2019
- **Updated:** 4 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-2hx6-6ffm-vq7g

## What is CVE-2019-12794?

CVE-2019-12794 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Misp-Project Misp, published on 11 Jun 2019. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

An issue was discovered in MISP 2.4.108. Organization admins could reset credentials for site admins (organization admins have the inherent ability to reset passwords for all of their organization's users). This, however, could be abused in a situation where the host organization of an instance creates organization admins. An organization admin could set a password manually for the site admin or simply use the API key of the site admin to impersonate them. The potential for abuse only occurs when the host organization creates lower-privilege organization admins instead of the usual site admins. Also, only organization admins of the same organization as the site admin could abuse this.

Weakness: CWE-269 (Improper Privilege Management)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-12794?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Misp-Project Misp.

## How do I fix CVE-2019-12794?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-12794 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2019-12794 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-12794 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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- [CVE-2024-29858](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-29858/): File upload in n/a (critical 9.8)
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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2019-12794 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2019-12794 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Misp-Project Misp, published on 11 Jun 2019. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-12794 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Misp-Project Misp. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-12794/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-12794/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-12794
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-12794
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-12794

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