CVE-2021-43834

CVSS V2 Medium 6.5 CVSS V3 Critical 9.8
Description
eLabFTW is an electronic lab notebook manager for research teams. In versions prior to 4.2.0 there is a vulnerability which allows an attacker to authenticate as an existing user, if that user was created using a single sign-on authentication option such as LDAP or SAML. It impacts instances where LDAP or SAML is used for authentication instead of the (default) local password mechanism. Users should upgrade to at least version 4.2.0.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2021-43834
  • Assigner
  • security-advisories@github.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2021-12-16T00:15:07
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2021-12-21T15:58:17
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-287 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/287.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:elabftw:elabftw:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 4.2.0
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • SINGLE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 6.5
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8
  • Impact Score
  • 6.4
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 9.8
  • Base Severity
  • CRITICAL
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 5.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://github.com/elabftw/elabftw/releases/tag/4.2.0 Release Notes Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/elabftw/elabftw/security/advisories/GHSA-98rp-gx76-33ph Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-43834
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-43834
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 06:40:28 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-06 04:11:35 2021-12-16T00:15Z 2021-12-16T00:15:07 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-06 04:11:35 2021-12-21T15:58:17 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-06 04:11:35 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated