CVE-2021-41189 Communities and collections administrators can escalate their privilege up to system administrator

What is CVE-2021-41189?

CVE-2021-41189 is a high-severity vulnerability in DSpace, published on 29 Oct 2021.

Official description

DSpace is an open source turnkey repository application. In version 7.0, any community or collection administrator can escalate their permission up to become system administrator. This vulnerability only exists in 7.0 and does not impact 6.x or below. This issue is patched in version 7.1. As a workaround, users of 7.0 may temporarily disable the ability for community or collection administrators to manage permissions or workflows settings.

Weakness: CWE-863

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-41189?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.dspace:dspace-api. It affects 1 product.

Products include Duraspace Dspace.

How do I fix CVE-2021-41189?

Upgrade org.dspace:dspace-api to 7.1 or later.

Is CVE-2021-41189 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-41189 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in DSpace

• CVE-2022-31194 Path traversal vulnerabilities in DSpace JSPUI submission upload High 8.2
• CVE-2016-10726 High severity vulnerability that affects org.dspace:dspace-xmlui High 7.5
• CVE-2022-31195 Path traversal vulnerability in Simple Archive Format package import in DSpace High 7.2
• CVE-2022-31191 Cross Site Scripting possible in DSpace JSPUI spellcheck and autocomplete tools High 7.1
• CVE-2022-31192 Cross Site Scripting possible in DSpace JSPUI "Request a Copy" feature High 7.1

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-cf2j-vf36-c6w8.