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High severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 29, 2021· Updated Aug 4, 2024

Communities and collections administrators can escalate their privilege up to system administrator

CVE-2021-41189

Description

DSpace is an open source turnkey repository application. In version 7.0, any community or collection administrator can escalate their permission up to become system administrator. This vulnerability only exists in 7.0 and does not impact 6.x or below. This issue is patched in version 7.1. As a workaround, users of 7.0 may temporarily disable the ability for community or collection administrators to manage permissions or workflows settings.

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Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
org.dspace:dspace-apiMaven
>= 7.0, < 7.17.1

Affected products

2

Patches

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