CVE-2018-1000133
Pitchfork version 1.4.6 RC1 contains an Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in Trident Pitchfork components that can result in A standard unprivileged user could gain system administrator permissions within the web portal..
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.31%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Pitchfork version 1.4.6 RC1 contains an Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in Trident Pitchfork components that can result in A standard unprivileged user could gain system administrator permissions within the web portal.. This attack appear to be exploitable via The user must be able to login, and could edit their profile and set the "System Administrator" permission to "yes" on themselves.. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.4.6 RC2.
- CVSS 3.0
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.31% probability · 70th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-269
- Affected
- secluded/trident
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 1.3% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://github.com/tridentli/pitchfork/commit/33549f15707801099e1253dd5e79369bd48eb59bPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/tridentli/pitchfork/commit/9fd07cbe4f93e1367e142016e9a205366680dd54Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/tridentli/pitchfork/issues/168Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/tridentli/trident/releases/tag/DEV_1.4.6-RC2Third Party Advisory
- https://thomas-ward.net/security-advisories/trident-trusted-communications-platform-privilege-escalation-issue-advisory/Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/tridentli/pitchfork/commit/33549f15707801099e1253dd5e79369bd48eb59bPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/tridentli/pitchfork/commit/9fd07cbe4f93e1367e142016e9a205366680dd54Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/tridentli/pitchfork/issues/168Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/tridentli/trident/releases/tag/DEV_1.4.6-RC2Third Party Advisory
- https://thomas-ward.net/security-advisories/trident-trusted-communications-platform-privilege-escalation-issue-advisory/Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.