DHIS up to 2.36.12.0/2.37.8.0/2.38.2.0/2.39.0.0 HTTP PUT Request privileges management

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A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in DHIS up to 2.36.12.0/2.37.8.0/2.38.2.0/2.39.0.0. This affects an unknown function of the component HTTP PUT Request Handler. The manipulation results in privileges management. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2022-41948. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in DHIS up to 2.36.12.0/2.37.8.0/2.38.2.0/2.39.0.0. Affected is an unknown part of the component HTTP PUT Request Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

DHIS 2 is an open source information system for data capture, management, validation, analytics and visualization. Affected versions are subject to a privilege escalation vulnerability. A DHIS2 user with authority to manage users can assign superuser privileges to themself by manually crafting an HTTP PUT request. Only users with the following DHIS2 user role authorities can exploit this vulnerability. Note that in many systems the only users with user admin privileges are also superusers. In these cases, the escalation vulnerability does not exist. The vulnerability is only exploitable by attackers who can authenticate as users with the user admin authority. As this is usually a small and relatively trusted set of users, exploit vectors will often be limited. DHIS2 administrators should upgrade to the following hotfix releases: 2.36.12.1, 2.37.8.1, 2.38.2.1, 2.39.0.1. The only known workaround to this issue is to avoid the assignment of the user management authority to any users until the patch has been applied.

The weakness was published 12/09/2022 as GHSA-59fm-8432-2426. The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2022-41948 since 09/30/2022. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 2.36.12.1, 2.37.8.1, 2.38.2.1 or 2.39.0.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• DHIS

Version

• 2.36.0
• 2.36.1
• 2.36.2
• 2.36.3
• 2.36.4
• 2.36.5
• 2.36.6
• 2.36.7
• 2.36.8
• 2.36.9
• 2.36.10
• 2.36.11
• 2.36.12.0
• 2.37.0
• 2.37.1
• 2.37.2
• 2.37.3
• 2.37.4
• 2.37.5
• 2.37.6
• 2.37.7
• 2.37.8.0
• 2.38.0
• 2.38.1
• 2.38.2.0
• 2.39.0

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