# CVE-2024-36467: Authentication privilege escalation via user groups due to missing authorization checks

> Authenticated users can escalate privileges to administrator by adding themselves to restricted groups via the user update API.

- **Severity:** High 7.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 27 Nov 2024
- **Updated:** 4 Dec 2024
- **Also known as:** DEBIAN-CVE-2024-36467, GHSA-xwvj-c6cj-6xgw, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-36467

## What is CVE-2024-36467?

CVE-2024-36467 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Zabbix Zabbix, published on 27 Nov 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

An authenticated user with API access (e.g.: user with default User role), more specifically a user with access to the user.update API endpoint is enough to be able to add themselves to any group (e.g.: Zabbix Administrators), except to groups that are disabled or having restricted GUI access.

Weakness: CWE-285 (Improper Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-36467?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Zabbix Zabbix.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-36467?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2024-36467 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-36467 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Zabbix Zabbix

- [CVE-2022-23131](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-23131/): Zabbix Frontend Authentication Bypass (critical 9.1, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2007-0640](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2007-0640/): Memory corruption in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2024-42327](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-42327/): SQL injection in user.get API (critical 9.9)
- [CVE-2024-22116](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-22116/): Remote code execution within ping script (critical 9.9)
- [CVE-2013-3738](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-3738/): Code injection in n/a (critical 9.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-36467 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-36467 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Zabbix Zabbix, published on 27 Nov 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-36467 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Zabbix Zabbix. 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-2024-36467/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-36467/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-36467
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-36467
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-36467

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-36467/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.