High
Snipe-IT: Privilege Escalation via API Permissions Assignment
Type: advisorySources: OSV
Snipe-IT is an IT asset/license management system. Prior to 8.4.1, aAn authenticated user with only users.edit permission can escalate their own privileges to admin by sending a PATCH request to /api/v1/users/{id} with permissions[admin]=1. The API controller only strips the superuser key from the permissions array, allowing admin and all other permission keys to be set by any user who can update users. This vulnerability is fixed in 8.4.1.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-44832
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 8 Nov 2026, 02:05 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Snipe-IT: Privilege Escalation via API Permissions Assignment
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 26 May 2026, 19:29 UTC
Snipe-IT is an IT asset/license management system. Prior to 8.4.1, aAn authenticated user with only users.edit permission can escalate their own privileges to admin by sending a PATCH request to /api/v1/users/{id} with permissions[admin]=1. The API controller only strips the superuser key from the permissions array, allowing admin and all other permission keys to be set by any user who can update users. This vulnerability is fixed in 8.4.1.
osv:CVE-2026-44832
Complete source record
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