CVE-2020-24401 Incorrect permissions following the deletion of a user role or deactivation of a user

What is CVE-2020-24401?

CVE-2020-24401 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Magento Magento, published on 9 Nov 2020. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Magento versions 2.4.0 and 2.3.5p1 (and earlier) are affected by an incorrect authorization vulnerability. A user can still access resources provisioned under their old role after an administrator removes the role or disables the user's account.

Weakness: CWE-863

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-24401?

5 open source packages ship an affected version, including magento/community-edition, magento and magento/project-community-edition. It affects 1 product.

Products include Magento Magento.

How do I fix CVE-2020-24401?

Upgrade magento/community-edition to 2.4.1 or later.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2020-24401 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-24401 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BIT-magento-2020-24401, GHSA-f2g3-3c6q-4478.