CVE-2024-25632 Unauthorised granting of administrator privileges over arbitrary teams under certain circumstances
Attackers can gain administrator privileges over arbitrary teams in eLabFTW, potentially compromising team data and management.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-25632?
CVE-2024-25632 is a high-severity vulnerability in elabftw, published on 1 Oct 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
eLabFTW is an open source electronic lab notebook for research labs. In the context of eLabFTW, an administrator is a user account with certain privileges to manage users and content in their assigned team/teams. A user may be an administrator in one team and a regular user in another. The vulnerability allows a regular user to become administrator of a team where they are a member, under a reasonable configuration. Additionally, in eLabFTW versions subsequent to v5.0.0, the vulnerability may allow an initially unauthenticated user to gain administrative privileges over an arbitrary team. The vulnerability does not affect system administrator status. Users should upgrade to version 5.1.0. System administrators are advised to turn off local user registration, saml_team_create and not allow administrators to import users into teams, unless strictly required.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-25632?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Elabftw Elabftw.
How do I fix CVE-2024-25632?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-25632 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2024-25632 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-25632 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in elabftw
- CVE-2021-43834 Incorrect Authentication in elabftw
- CVE-2024-28100 Stored Cross-site Scripting leading to arbitrary actions taken on behalf of users in elabftw
- CVE-2019-12185 File upload in n/a
- CVE-2025-25206 Incorrect input validation could allow an authenticated user to read sensitive information
- CVE-2021-43833 Account takeover in eLabFTW
Sources
Also known as GHSA-6m7p-gh9f-5mgg.