PYSEC-2024-200

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2024-41942
Aliases
BIT-jupyterhub-2024-41942, GHSA-9x4q-3gxw-849f
CVSS_V3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

JupyterHub is software that allows one to create a multi-user server for Jupyter notebooks. Prior to versions 4.1.6 and 5.1.0, if a user is granted the `admin:users` scope, they may escalate their own privileges by making themselves a full admin user. The impact is relatively small in that `admin:users` is already an extremely privileged scope only granted to trusted users. In effect, `admin:users` is equivalent to `admin=True`, which is not intended. Note that the change here only prevents escalation to the built-in JupyterHub admin role that has unrestricted permissions. It does not prevent users with e.g. `groups` permissions from granting themselves or other users permissions via group membership, which is intentional. Versions 4.1.6 and 5.1.0 fix this issue.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
PyPI · jupyterhubintroduced 0, fixed 99e2720b0fc626cbeeca3c6337f917fdacfaa428, fixed ff2db557a85b6980f90c3158634bf924063ab8ba ; introduced 0, fixed 4.1.6

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — PyPA Advisory Database