JupyterHub has a privilege escalation vulnerability with the `admin:users` scope
### Summary If a user is granted the `admin:users` scope, they may escalate their own privileges by making themselves a full admin user. ### Details The `admin:users` scope allows a user to edit user records: > admin:users > > Read, write, create and delete users and their authentication state, not including their servers or tokens. > > -- https://jupyterhub.readthedocs.io/en/stable/rbac/scopes.html#available-scopes However, this includes making users admins. Admin users are granted scopes beyond `admin:users` making this a mechanism by which granted scopes may be escalated. ### Impact 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.
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Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2024-41942US | high7.2 | — | ||
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 ma… | ||||
references
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://github.com/jupyterhub/jupyterhubPACKAGE
- https://github.com/jupyterhub/jupyterhub/commit/99e2720b0fc626cbeeca3c6337f917fdacfaa428WEB
- https://github.com/jupyterhub/jupyterhub/commit/ff2db557a85b6980f90c3158634bf924063ab8baWEB
- https://github.com/jupyterhub/jupyterhub/security/advisories/GHSA-9x4q-3gxw-849fWEB
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/jupyterhub/PYSEC-2024-200.yamlWEB
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-41942ADVISORY
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