CVE-2026-44832

Description

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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-05-07 | Published 2026-05-26 | Updated 2026-05-27 | Assigner GitHub_M

Problem types

CWE-281: Improper Preservation of Permissions

CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization

Product status

References

github.com/...ipe-it/security/advisories/GHSA-hq28-crg7-95pr

github.com/...ommit/ce18ff669ceb0f0349749fd5d11c1d3d40b10569

cve.org (CVE-2026-44832)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-44832)

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