Uvdesk community-skeleton/core-framework up to 1.1.6 EditAgent Endpoint role privileges management

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Uvdesk community-skeleton and core-framework up to 1.1.6. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component EditAgent Endpoint. This manipulation of the argument role causes privileges management. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2025-71421. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Uvdesk community-skeleton and core-framework up to 1.1.6. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component EditAgent Endpoint. The manipulation of the argument role with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

UVdesk core-framework before 1.1.7 contains an improper privilege management vulnerability in the editAgent endpoint that allows agents with agent-management privilege to escalate their own role to administrator. Attackers can submit their own account identifier with a role parameter set to ROLE_ADMIN to gain full administrative control over agents, tickets, and mail configuration.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-71421 since 09/21/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 1.1.7 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Uvdesk

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• community-skeleton
• core-framework

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• 1.1.0
• 1.1.1
• 1.1.2
• 1.1.3
• 1.1.4
• 1.1.5
• 1.1.6

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