GHSA-ch3w-9456-38v3Medium

Netmaker has Privilege Escalation from Admin to Super-Admin via User Update

Published
March 9, 2026
Last Modified
March 11, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

The user update handler (PUT /api/users/{username}) lacks validation to prevent an admin-role user from assigning the super-admin role during account updates. While the code correctly blocks an admin from assigning the admin role to another user, it does not include an equivalent check for the super-admin role.

Credits Artem Danilov (Positive Technologies)

🎯 Affected products1

  • go/github.com/gravitl/netmaker:< 1.5.0

🔗 References (4)