CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-22966
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-11-19
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-863
Description
Privilege escalation from Editor to Admin using Groups in Concrete CMS versions 8.5.6 and below. If a group is granted "view" permissions on the bulkupdate page, then users in that group can escalate to being an administrator with a specially crafted curl. Fixed by adding a check for group permissions before allowing a group to be moved. Concrete CMS Security team CVSS scoring: 7.1 AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCredit for discovery: "Adrian Tiron from FORTBRIDGE ( https://www.fortbridge.co.uk/ )"This fix is also in Concrete version 9.0.0
Affected configurations
• concretecms concrete cms (< 8.5.7)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization weakness
References
- https://documentation.concretecms.org/developers/introduction/version-history/857-release-notes Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://hackerone.com/reports/1362747 Permissions Required
- https://documentation.concretecms.org/developers/introduction/version-history/857-release-notes Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://hackerone.com/reports/1362747 Permissions Required