CVE-2023-4009 Privilege Escalation for Project Owner and Project User Admin Roles in Ops Manager
Authenticated project owners or user admins can escalate privileges to organization owner by generating an API key with elevated permissions.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2023-4009?
CVE-2023-4009 is a high-severity vulnerability in MongoDB Ops Manager, published on 8 Aug 2023. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Official description
In MongoDB Ops Manager v5.0 prior to 5.0.22 and v6.0 prior to 6.0.17 it is possible for an authenticated user with project owner or project user admin access to generate an API key with the privileges of org owner resulting in privilege escalation.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-4009?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Mongodb Ops Manager Server.
How do I fix CVE-2023-4009?
No fix has been published for CVE-2023-4009 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2023-4009 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-4009 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in MongoDB Ops Manager
Sources
Also known as GHSA-4xr4-3f5p-7cg4.