# CVE-2024-39902: Tuleap's recursive permissions to document manager folder are not properly applied

> Attackers can retain edit or manage permissions on document folders despite restrictions, allowing unauthorized data modification.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 22 Jul 2024
- **Updated:** 2 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-5jq5-vxmq-xrj7

## What is CVE-2024-39902?

CVE-2024-39902 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Enalean Tuleap, published on 22 Jul 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

Tuleap is an open source suite to improve management of software developments and collaboration. Prior to Tuleap Community Edition 15.10.99.128 and Tuleap Enterprise Edition 15.10-6 and 15.9-8, the checkbox "Apply same permissions to all sub-items of this folder" in the document manager permissions modal is not taken into account and always considered as unchecked. In situations where the permissions are being restricted some users might still keep, incorrectly, the possibility to edit or manage items. Only change made via the web UI are affected, changes directly made via the REST API are not impacted. This vulnerability is fixed in Tuleap Community Edition 15.10.99.128 and Tuleap Enterprise Edition 15.10-6 and 15.9-8.

Weakness: CWE-281 (Improper Preservation of Permissions)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-39902?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Enalean Tuleap.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-39902?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-39902 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-39902 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-39902 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Enalean Tuleap

- [CVE-2018-17298](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-17298/): Business logic in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2018-7538](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-7538/): SQL injection in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2014-7178](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-7178/): Command injection in n/a (critical 9.3)
- [CVE-2021-43806](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-43806/): SQL injection in Tuleap (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2021-41154](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-41154/): SQL injection in the "SVN core" commits browser (high 8.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-39902 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-39902 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Enalean Tuleap, published on 22 Jul 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-39902 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Enalean Tuleap. 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-2024-39902/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-39902/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-39902
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-39902
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-39902

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-39902/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.