High
Security advisory
An improper authorization check in the User API in TheHive before 2.13.4 and 3.x before 3.3.1 allows users with read-only or read/write access to escalate their privileges to the administrator's privileges. This affects app/controllers/UserCtrl.scala.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-18376
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:55 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An improper authorization check in the User API in TheHive before 2.13.4 and 3.x before 3.3.1 allows users with read-only or read/write access to escalate their privileges to the administrator's privileges. This affects app/controllers/UserCtrl.scala.
osv:CVE-2017-18376
Complete source record
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