{"id":"GHSA-cf2j-vf36-c6w8","summary":"Communities and collections administrators can escalate their privilege up to system administrator","details":"### Impact\nAny community or collection administrator can escalate their permission up to become system administrator.\n\nThis vulnerability only existed in 7.0 and does not impact 6.x or below.\n\n### Patches\nFix is included in [7.1](https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/releases/tag/dspace-7.1). Please upgrade to 7.1 at your earliest convenience.\n\n### Workarounds\nIn 7.0, temporarily disable the ability for community or collection administrators to manage permissions or workflows settings, i.e. set the following properties in your local.cfg / dspace.cfg file\n```\ncore.authorization.collection-admin.policies = false\ncore.authorization.community-admin.policies = false\ncore.authorization.community-admin.collection.workflows = false\n```\nOnce upgraded to 7.1, these settings can be safely reverted to the default values of `true`.\n\n### References\nDiscovered during investigation of https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/7928\n\n### For more information\nIf you have any questions or comments about this advisory:\n* Email us at security@dspace.org\n","aliases":["CVE-2021-41189"],"modified":"2026-05-13T12:14:15.249518087Z","published":"2021-11-01T19:18:16Z","database_specific":{"cwe_ids":["CWE-863"],"severity":"HIGH","github_reviewed":true,"github_reviewed_at":"2021-10-29T17:26:35Z","nvd_published_at":"2021-10-29T18:15:00Z"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/security/advisories/GHSA-cf2j-vf36-c6w8"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-41189"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/7928"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/commit/277b499a5cd3a4f5eb2370513a1b7e4ec2a6e041"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/commit/c3bea16ab911606e15ae96c97a1575e1ffb14f8a"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"org.dspace:dspace-api","ecosystem":"Maven","purl":"pkg:maven/org.dspace/dspace-api"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"7.0"},{"fixed":"7.1"}]}],"versions":["7.0","7.0-preview-1"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2021/11/GHSA-cf2j-vf36-c6w8/GHSA-cf2j-vf36-c6w8.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}