Privilege escalation via forged administrator role assignment
Published Apr 5, 2023 · Updated Feb 13, 2025
Cross-site request forgery in IMA World Health BHIMA 1.27.0 allows remote attackers to change account privileges through an administrator. The /roles/assignTouser endpoint accepts attacker-selected user_id and role_uuids values from a cross-origin auto-submitted POST without a CSRF defense. An administrator must open the malicious link while authenticated, after which the chosen registered account receives the selected roles.
Summary
What happened
Cross-site request forgery in IMA World Health BHIMA 1.27.0 allows remote attackers to change account privileges through an administrator. The /roles/assignTouser endpoint accepts attacker-selected user_id and role_uuids values from a cross-origin auto-submitted POST without a CSRF defense. An administrator must open the malicious link while authenticated, after which the chosen registered account receives the selected roles.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-0959
- Published
- Apr 5, 2023
- Updated
- Feb 13, 2025
- Vendor
- IMA World Health
- Product
- BHIMA
- Classifications
- CWE-269, T1098
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Apr 5, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Feb 13, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=1.27.0
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Public exploit references
- Exploit.html CSRF role-assignment formproof of concept · demonstrated
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