Administrator creation via missing API role check
Published May 10, 2022 · Updated Aug 3, 2024
Improper authorization in Easy!Appointments before 1.5.0 allows remote authenticated users to create administrator accounts through its API. The auth method in application/libraries/Api.php accepts any valid username and password without verifying that role_slug is the administrator role. Any low-privileged backend account can therefore call the administrators endpoint, create a new administrator, and control API-exposed data and settings.
Summary
What happened
Improper authorization in Easy!Appointments before 1.5.0 allows remote authenticated users to create administrator accounts through its API. The auth method in application/libraries/Api.php accepts any valid username and password without verifying that role_slug is the administrator role. Any low-privileged backend account can therefore call the administrators endpoint, create a new administrator, and control API-exposed data and settings.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-1397
- Published
- May 10, 2022
- Updated
- Aug 3, 2024
- Vendor
- Alex Tselegidis
- Product
- Easy!Appointments
- Classifications
- CWE-269, T1078
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- May 10, 2022CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 3, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=unspecified <1.5.0
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- Authenticated administrator-creation API proof of conceptproof of concept · unverified
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