{"id":"CVE-2017-18376","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-18376","generatedAt":"2026-10-29T01:49:39.065Z","title":"An improper authorization check in the User API in TheHive before 2.13.4 and 3.x before 3.3.1 allows users with read-only or read/write access to escalate their privileges to the administrator's privileges.","description":"An improper authorization check in the User API in TheHive before 2.13.4 and 3.x before 3.3.1 allows users with read-only or read/write access to escalate their privileges to the administrator's privileges. This affects app/controllers/UserCtrl.scala.","published":"2019-06-02T20:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:12:43.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":8.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-264"],"affected":["strangebee/thehive"],"epss":{"score":0.01864,"percentile":0.7916,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.86%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://gist.github.com/RaJiska/c1b4521aefd77ed43b06045ca05e2591","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/TheHive-Project/TheHive/issues/408","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/TheHive-Project/TheHive/releases/tag/3.3.1","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://gist.github.com/RaJiska/c1b4521aefd77ed43b06045ca05e2591","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/TheHive-Project/TheHive/issues/408","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/TheHive-Project/TheHive/releases/tag/3.3.1","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-18376","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}