# CVE-2024-22409: Default Privileges allow for high level operations for low privileged users in datahub

> Low-privileged users can perform admin actions like removing users or editing profiles due to overly broad default permissions, leading to privilege escalation.

- **Severity:** High 7.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/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:** 16 Jan 2024
- **Updated:** 17 Jun 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-x3v6-r479-m4xv

## What is CVE-2024-22409?

CVE-2024-22409 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in datahub-project datahub, published on 16 Jan 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

DataHub is an open-source metadata platform. In affected versions a low privileged user could remove a user, edit group members, or edit another user's profile information. The default privileges gave too many broad permissions to low privileged users. These have been constrained in PR #9067 to prevent abuse. This issue can result in privilege escalation for lower privileged users up to admin privileges, potentially, if a group with admin privileges exists. May not impact instances that have modified default privileges. This issue has been addressed in datahub version 0.12.1. Users are advised to upgrade.

Weakness: CWE-276 (Incorrect Default Permissions)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-22409?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Datahub Project Datahub.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-22409?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-22409 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-22409 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-22409 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in datahub-project datahub

- [CVE-2023-25558](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-25558/): Deserialization of untrusted data in DataHub (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2023-47629](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-47629/): Privilege escalation through email sign-up in datahub (high 7.1)
- [CVE-2023-47640](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-47640/): Insecure Use of HMAC-SHA1 For Session Signing in datahub (medium 6.4)
- [CVE-2023-47628](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-47628/): Session Expiration Misconfiguration in datahub (medium 4.2)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-22409 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-22409 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in datahub-project datahub, published on 16 Jan 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-22409 exists.

Affected product: datahub-project datahub. 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-2024-22409/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-22409/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-22409
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-22409
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-22409

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-22409/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.