Privilege escalation from administrator in eLabFTW
Published May 31, 2022
7.2
HIGHCVSS 3.1
EPSS 26.95%
Description
eLabFTW is an electronic lab notebook manager for research teams. Prior to version 4.3.0, a vulnerability allows an authenticated user with an administrator role in a team to assign itself system administrator privileges within the application, or create a new system administrator account. The issue has been corrected in eLabFTW version 4.3.0. In the context of eLabFTW, an administrator is a user account with certain privileges to manage users and content in their assigned team/teams. A system administrator account can manage all accounts, teams and edit system-wide settings within the application. The impact is not deemed as high, as it requires the attacker to have access to an administrator account. Regular user accounts cannot exploit this to gain admin rights. A workaround for one if the issues is removing the ability of administrators to create accounts.
Affected products
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- Version < 4.3.0StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
1 other source (GitHub) ▾
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
CISA SSVC (Vulnrichment)
Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization from CISA ADP.
Exploitation
NoneAutomatable
NoTechnical Impact
PartialDecision
n/aAssessed Apr 23, 2025 · SSVC 2.0.3
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (27 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 26.95% (0.26948) | 97.98th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Aug 19, 2026 | 26.95% (0.26948) | 97.88th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 25.55% (0.25550) | 97.68th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Apr 11, 2026 | 13.08% (0.13083) | 94.11th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Jan 20, 2026 | 10.36% (0.10364) | 92.98th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Nov 21, 2025 | 25.44% (0.25442) | 95.99th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Nov 18, 2025 | 8.17% (0.08174) | 91.31th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Jun 11, 2025 | 25.44% (0.25442) | 95.92th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Jun 2, 2025 | 37.37% (0.37369) | 96.99th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Jun 1, 2025 | 26.79% (0.26794) | 96.09th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 30, 2025 | 28.71% (0.28708) | 96.13th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 29, 2025 | 33.56% (0.33557) | 95.23th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 28, 2025 | 28.71% (0.28708) | 96.12th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 27, 2025 | 33.56% (0.33557) | 96.34th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 20, 2025 | 22.15% (0.22148) | 95.34th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 19, 2025 | 32.26% (0.32260) | 96.29th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 18.47% (0.18469) | 94.75th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 0.10% (0.00095) | 41.75th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Dec 22, 2023 | 0.10% (0.00095) | 39.67th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Nov 11, 2023 | 0.08% (0.00085) | 35.52th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jun 7, 2023 | 0.08% (0.00081) | 33.36th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| May 1, 2023 | 0.06% (0.00058) | 22.59th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 0.05% (0.00050) | 17.03th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 9.03% (0.09029) | 94.14th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Dec 2, 2022 | 9.03% (0.09029) | 93.98th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Nov 29, 2022 | 0.89% (0.00885) | 26.99th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Jun 1, 2022 | 0.89% (0.00885) | 24.97th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
References (2)
- https://github.com/elabftw/elabftw/releases/tag/4.3.0 x_refsource_MISCRelease NotesThird Party Advisory
- https://github.com/elabftw/elabftw/security/advisories/GHSA-937c-m7p3-775v x_refsource_CONFIRMThird Party Advisory
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| https://github.com/elabftw/elabftw/releases/tag/4.3.0 | x_refsource_MISCRelease NotesThird Party Advisory | |
| https://github.com/elabftw/elabftw/security/advisories/GHSA-937c-m7p3-775v | x_refsource_CONFIRMThird Party Advisory |
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