# CVE-2024-9098: Privilege Escalation in lunary-ai/lunary

> Admins can invite users with billing permissions, gaining unauthorized access to financial resources due to missing role restrictions.

- **Severity:** High 7.3 (`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 20 Mar 2025
- **Updated:** 15 Oct 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-fxpx-7wrq-8ggp

## What is CVE-2024-9098?

CVE-2024-9098 is a high-severity vulnerability in Lunary Lunary, published on 20 Mar 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

In lunary-ai/lunary before version 1.4.30, a privilege escalation vulnerability exists where admins can invite new members with billing permissions, thereby gaining unauthorized access to billing resources. This issue arises because the user creation endpoint does not restrict admins from inviting users with billing roles. As a result, admins can circumvent the intended access control, posing a risk to the organization's financial resources.

Weakness: CWE-863 (Incorrect Authorization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-9098?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Lunary Lunary.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-9098?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-9098 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-9098 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-9098 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in Lunary Lunary

- [CVE-2024-8999](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-8999/): Improper Access Control in lunary-ai/lunary (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2024-9095](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-9095/): Improper Authorization in lunary-ai/lunary (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2024-7456](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-7456/): SQL Injection in lunary-ai/lunary (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2024-4146](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-4146/): Incorrect Authorization in lunary-ai/lunary (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2024-5386](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-5386/): Account Hijacking via Password Reset Token Leak in lunary-ai/lunary (critical 9.6)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-9098 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-9098 is a high-severity vulnerability in Lunary Lunary, published on 20 Mar 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-9098 exists.

Affected product: Lunary Lunary. 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-2024-9098/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-9098/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-9098
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-9098
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-9098

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-9098/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.