capgo.app is an over-the-air update platform for Capacitor apps. In all versions prior to a fix, the row-level security UPDATE policy on the public.orgs table permits an organization admin (a user holding org.update_settings) to update the entire row, including the internal billing pointer column customer_id. The official organization update endpoint (supabase/functions/_backend/public/organization/put.ts) allowlists only a small set of editable settings fields and excludes customer_id, and the private Stripe billing route separately requires the org.update_billing permission. By sending an update directly to Supabase PostgREST, an authenticated org admin without org.update_billing can null or corrupt the organizations Stripe customer pointer, causing plan and billing checks that trust orgs.customer_id to fail and moving the organization from a valid paid plan state to unpaid/no-plan behavior. At the time of the advisory no patched version was available.
Weakness
The product performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action, but it does not correctly perform the check.
Potential Mitigations
- Divide the product into anonymous, normal, privileged, and administrative areas. Reduce the attack surface by carefully mapping roles with data and functionality. Use role-based access control (RBAC) [REF-229] to enforce the roles at the appropriate boundaries.
- Note that this approach may not protect against horizontal authorization, i.e., it will not protect a user from attacking others with the same role.
- Use a vetted library or framework that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
- For example, consider using authorization frameworks such as the JAAS Authorization Framework [REF-233] and the OWASP ESAPI Access Control feature [REF-45].
- For web applications, make sure that the access control mechanism is enforced correctly at the server side on every page. Users should not be able to access any unauthorized functionality or information by simply requesting direct access to that page.
- One way to do this is to ensure that all pages containing sensitive information are not cached, and that all such pages restrict access to requests that are accompanied by an active and authenticated session token associated with a user who has the required permissions to access that page.