Administrator escalation via writable profile privilege flags
Published Sep 19, 2025 · Updated Sep 19, 2025
Privilege escalation in Tandoor Recipes 2.0.0-alpha-1 allows remote authenticated users to gain staff and administrator privileges. The User Profile API endpoint accepts client-supplied is_staff and is_superuser boolean fields during an ordinary profile update instead of restricting them to administrators. A regular account can set both flags to true over the network, gaining the application's highest staff and administrative privileges without user interaction.
Summary
What happened
Privilege escalation in Tandoor Recipes 2.0.0-alpha-1 allows remote authenticated users to gain staff and administrator privileges. The User Profile API endpoint accepts client-supplied is_staff and is_superuser boolean fields during an ordinary profile update instead of restricting them to administrators. A regular account can set both flags to true over the network, gaining the application's highest staff and administrative privileges without user interaction.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-57396
- Published
- Sep 19, 2025
- Updated
- Sep 19, 2025
- Vendor
- Unknown vendor
- Product
- Unknown product
- Classifications
- CWE-269, T1098
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Sep 19, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 19, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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