high7.2

CVE-2021-41189

Communities and collections administrators can escalate their privilege up to system administrator

Impact

### Impact Any community or collection administrator can escalate their permission up to become system administrator. This vulnerability only existed in 7.0 and does not impact 6.x or below. ### Patches Fix is included in [7.1](https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/releases/tag/dspace-7.1). Please upgrade to 7.1 at your earliest convenience. ### Workarounds In 7.0, temporarily disable the ability for community or collection administrators to manage permissions or workflows settings, i.e. set the following properties in your local.cfg / dspace.cfg file ``` core.authorization.collection-admin.policies = false core.authorization.community-admin.policies = false core.authorization.community-admin.collection.workflows = false ``` Once upgraded to 7.1, these settings can be safely reverted to the default values of `true`. ### References Discovered during investigation of https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/7928 ### For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: * Email us at security@dspace.org

Affected packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
maven	`org.dspace:dspace-api`	>= 7.0, < 7.1	7.1

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
Duraspace	Dspace	Version 7.0

Weakness classification

CWE-863