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Lack of Permission Check for API Key for some endpoints

High
JanCizmar published GHSA-4f9j-4vh4-p85v Jul 27, 2023

Package

tolgee (DockerHub)

Affected versions

3.14.0

Patched versions

3.23.1

Description

Impact

The security issue involves a vulnerability related to the lack of permission checks for API keys on specific endpoints. When a request is made using an API key, the backend fails to verify the permission scopes associated with the key, effectively bypassing permission checks entirely for some endpoints.

This vulnerability mainly affects projects that have inadvertently exposed their API keys on the internet and projects with users who can use this vulnerability to modify data they have no access to.

Patches

It's fixed in version 3.23.1

References

Link to the fixing commit: https://github.com/tolgee/tolgee-platform/pull/1818/files

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

CVE ID

CVE-2023-38510

Weaknesses

No CWEs