CVE-2022-31007
Prior to version 4.3.0, a vulnerability allows an authenticated user with an administrator role in a team to assign itself system administrator privileges within the application, or create a new system administrator account.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 26.9%, higher than 98% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
eLabFTW is an electronic lab notebook manager for research teams. Prior to version 4.3.0, a vulnerability allows an authenticated user with an administrator role in a team to assign itself system administrator privileges within the application, or create a new system administrator account. The issue has been corrected in eLabFTW version 4.3.0. In the context of eLabFTW, an administrator is a user account with certain privileges to manage users and content in their assigned team/teams. A system administrator account can manage all accounts, teams and edit system-wide settings within the application. The impact is not deemed as high, as it requires the attacker to have access to an administrator account. Regular user accounts cannot exploit this to gain admin rights. A workaround for one if the issues is removing the ability of administrators to create accounts.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.2 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 26.95% probability · 98th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-842, CWE-1287
- Affected
- elabftw/elabftw
- Source
- security-advisories@github.com
EPSS 26.9% since 3 November 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://github.com/elabftw/elabftw/releases/tag/4.3.0Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/elabftw/elabftw/security/advisories/GHSA-937c-m7p3-775vThird Party Advisory
- https://github.com/elabftw/elabftw/releases/tag/4.3.0Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/elabftw/elabftw/security/advisories/GHSA-937c-m7p3-775vThird Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.