eLabFTW up to 5.0.x saml_team_create privileges assignment

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in eLabFTW up to 5.0.x. This affects the function saml_team_create. The manipulation results in privileges assignment. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2024-25632. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability was found in eLabFTW up to 5.0.x. It has been classified as critical. Affected is the function saml_team_create. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges assignment vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-266. A product incorrectly assigns a privilege to a particular actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

eLabFTW is an open source electronic lab notebook for research labs. In the context of eLabFTW, an administrator is a user account with certain privileges to manage users and content in their assigned team/teams. A user may be an administrator in one team and a regular user in another. The vulnerability allows a regular user to become administrator of a team where they are a member, under a reasonable configuration. Additionally, in eLabFTW versions subsequent to v5.0.0, the vulnerability may allow an initially unauthenticated user to gain administrative privileges over an arbitrary team. The vulnerability does not affect system administrator status. Users should upgrade to version 5.1.0. System administrators are advised to turn off local user registration, saml_team_create and not allow administrators to import users into teams, unless strictly required.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-25632 since 02/08/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 5.1.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• eLabFTW

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• 5.0

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• Product: https://github.com/elabftw/elabftw/

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