Vulnerability CVE-2021-38617
Published: 2021-09-07

Description:
In Eigen NLP 3.10.1, a lack of access control on the /auth/v1/user/ user creation endpoint allows a standard user to create a super user account with a defined password. This directly leads to privilege escalation.

Type:

CWE-863

 (Incorrect Authorization)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.5/10
6.4/10
8/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Eigentech -> Natural language processing 

 References:
https://eigentech.com/
https://excellium-services.com/cert-xlm-advisory/
https://excellium-services.com/cert-xlm-advisory/CVE-2021-38617
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