CVE-2022-31168CWE-285CWE-863

Zulip Server insufficient authorization for changing bot roles

Medium · published July 22, 2022

CVSS v3.1
5.4
EPSS
1%
Percentile
56.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Zulip is an open source team chat tool. Due to an incorrect authorization check in Zulip Server 5.4 and earlier, a member of an organization could craft an API call that grants organization administrator privileges to one of their bots. The vulnerability is fixed in Zulip Server 5.5. Members who don’t own any bots, and lack permission to create them, can’t exploit the vulnerability. As a workaround for the vulnerability, an organization administrator can restrict the `Who can create bots` permission to administrators only, and change the ownership of existing bots.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.4 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00823 · 56.9th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-285 · Improper Authorization; CWE-863 · Incorrect Authorization
Published
2022-07-22T13:05Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 JUL 13:05Z
    Zulip Server insufficient authorization for changing bot roles
    cvelistv5