# CVE-2019-14841: Privilege escalation in Business-central

> An authenticated attacker can modify response headers to gain admin privileges in the Business Central Console.

- **Severity:** High 8.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 17 Oct 2022
- **Updated:** 13 May 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-hcqh-2x7m-p53x

## What is CVE-2019-14841?

CVE-2019-14841 is a high-severity vulnerability in Business-central, published on 17 Oct 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

A flaw was found in the RHDM, where an authenticated attacker can change their assigned role in the response header. This flaw allows an attacker to gain admin privileges in the Business Central Console.

Weakness: CWE-281 (Improper Preservation of Permissions)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-14841?

It affects 2 products.


Products: Redhat Decision Manager, Redhat Process Automation.

## How do I fix CVE-2019-14841?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-14841 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2019-14841 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-14841 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Business-central

- [CVE-2022-1415](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-1415/): Drools: unsafe data deserialization in streamutils (high 8.1)
- [CVE-2019-14840](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-14840/): Information disclosure in Business-central (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2020-1748](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-1748/): Incorrect Authorization in WildFly Elytron (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2017-7545](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-7545/): XML External Entity Reference in jbpmmigration (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2019-14886](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-14886/): Information disclosure in Business-central (medium 4.6)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2019-14841 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2019-14841 is a high-severity vulnerability in Business-central, published on 17 Oct 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-14841 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Business-central. 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-2019-14841/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-14841/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-14841
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-14841
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-14841

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-14841/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.