# CVE-2024-5525: Improper privilege management vulnerability in Astrotalks

> A local user can gain administrator privileges without credentials, allowing unauthorized administrative actions in the Astrotalks application.

- **Severity:** High 8.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L`)
- **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:** 31 May 2024
- **Updated:** 1 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-gggr-w4c4-8w8h

## What is CVE-2024-5525?

CVE-2024-5525 is a high-severity vulnerability in Astrotalks, published on 31 May 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Improper privilege management vulnerability in Astrotalks affecting version 10/03/2023. This vulnerability allows a local user to access the application as an administrator without any provided credentials, allowing the attacker to perform administrative actions.

Weakness: CWE-269 (Improper Privilege Management)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-5525?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Codester Astrotalks.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-5525?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-5525 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-5525 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-5525 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Astrotalks

- [CVE-2024-5523](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-5523/): SQL injection vulnerability in Astrotalks (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2024-5524](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-5524/): Information exposure vulnerability in Astrotalks (medium 5.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-5525 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-5525 is a high-severity vulnerability in Astrotalks, published on 31 May 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-5525 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Astrotalks. 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-2024-5525/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-5525/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-5525
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-5525
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-5525

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-5525/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.