CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2022-46172

Improper Privilege Management

Published: Dec 28, 2022 | Modified: Jun 23, 2023
CVSS 3.x
6.4
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

authentik is an open-source Identity provider focused on flexibility and versatility. In versions prior to 2022.10.4, and 2022.11.4, any authenticated user can create an arbitrary number of accounts through the default flows. This would circumvent any policy in a situation where it is undesirable for users to create new accounts by themselves. This may also affect other applications as these new basic accounts would exist throughout the SSO infrastructure. By default the newly created accounts cannot be logged into as no password reset exists by default. However password resets are likely to be enabled by most installations. This vulnerability pertains to the user context used in the default-user-settings-flow, /api/v3/flows/instances/default-user-settings-flow/execute/. This issue has been fixed in versions 2022.10.4 and 2022.11.4.

Weakness

The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Authentik Goauthentik 2022.10.0 (including) 2022.10.4 (excluding)
Authentik Goauthentik 2022.11.0 (including) 2022.11.4 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References