CVE-2021-22538CWE-20

Privilege escalation in RBAC system

Medium · published March 31, 2021

CVSS v3.1
6.3
EPSS
1%
Percentile
53.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

A privilege escalation vulnerability impacting the Google Exposure Notification Verification Server (versions prior to 0.23.1), allows an attacker who (1) has UserWrite permissions and (2) is using a carefully crafted request or malicious proxy, to create another user with higher privileges than their own. This occurs due to insufficient checks on the allowed set of permissions. The new user creation event would be captured in the Event Log.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00718 · 53.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation
Published
2021-03-31T21:10Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 31 MAR 21:10Z
    Privilege escalation in RBAC system
    cvelistv5