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Advisory details: vulnrichment / CVE-2026-44832
Advisory ID vulnrichment/CVE-2026-44832
Aliases
Summary Snipe-IT is an IT asset/license management system. Prior to 8.4.1, aAn authenticated user with only users.edit permission can escalate their own privileges to admin by sending a PATCH request to /api/v1/users/{id} with permissions[admin]=1. The API controller only strips the superuser key from the permissions array, allowing admin and all other permission keys to be set by any user who can update users. This vulnerability is fixed in 8.4.1.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 0.0
Risk
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches Package Commit Patches Details
Weaknesses (2)
CWE-281 Improper Preservation of Permissions
CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization
System Score Found at
cvssv4 7.1
ssvc Track
Reference id Reference type URL
https://github.com/grokability/snipe-it/commit/ce18ff669ceb0f0349749fd5d11c1d3d40b10569
https://github.com/grokability/snipe-it/security/advisories/GHSA-hq28-crg7-95pr
No exploits are available.

No EPSS data available for this advisory.

Patch URL
There are no known patches.
Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N Found at None
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Attack Requirements (AT) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (VC) Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (VI) Vulnerable System Impact Availability (VA) Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (SC) Subsequent System Impact Integrity (SI) Subsequent System Impact Availability (SA)

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2026-05-27T14:05:22Z/ Found at None

Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2026-05-27T14:05:22Z/

Decision: Track

Source URL: https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2026/44xxx/CVE-2026-44832.json

Source Advisory: vulnrichment/CVE-2026-44832

View SSVC decision tree 
[{'Exploitation': 'none'},
 {'Automatable': 'no'},
 {'Technical Impact': 'total'},
 {'Mission Prevalence': 'minimal'},
 {'Public Well-being Impact': 'material'},
 {'Mission & Well-being': 'medium'}]