🛡️ CVE-2023-40020
🔴 CVSS 9.9 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-287 NVD
9.9
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

PrivateUploader is an open source image hosting server written in Vue and TypeScript. In affected versions `app/routes/v3/admin.controller.ts` did not correctly verify whether the user was an administrator (High Level) or moderator (Low Level) causing the request to continue processing. The response would be a 403 with ADMIN_ONLY, however, next() would call leading to any updates/changes in the route to process. This issue has been addressed in version 3.2.49. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.9
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-287
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-08-14
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-11-21

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
privateuploader 3.2.49

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