Privilege escalation via unchecked user and role creation
Published Apr 25, 2025 · Updated Apr 25, 2025
Incorrect authorization in Sherpa RPA Sherpa Orchestrator 141851 allows remote authenticated users to gain elevated privileges. The user and role creation paths fail to enforce the account's assigned CRUD permissions, allowing creation of accounts and roles with greater access. A low-privileged account and network access to the web application are required; successful exploitation permits unauthorized access-control changes.
Summary
What happened
Incorrect authorization in Sherpa RPA Sherpa Orchestrator 141851 allows remote authenticated users to gain elevated privileges. The user and role creation paths fail to enforce the account's assigned CRUD permissions, allowing creation of accounts and roles with greater access. A low-privileged account and network access to the web application are required; successful exploitation permits unauthorized access-control changes.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-46544
- Published
- Apr 25, 2025
- Updated
- Apr 25, 2025
- Vendor
- Sherpa RPA
- Product
- Sherpa Orchestrator
- Classifications
- CWE-863, T1098
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Apr 25, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 25, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=141851
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