Withdrawn Advisory: JHipster allows privilege escalation via a modified authorities parameter
GHSA-cmm8-gw4m-26cw · CVE-2025-43712
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Description
Withdrawn Advisory
This advisory has been withdrawn because the original report was found to be invalid. This link is maintained to preserve external references. For more information, see https://groups.google.com/g/jhipster-dev/c/ATSlWkEjw2w.
Original Description
JHipster before v.8.9.0 allows privilege escalation via a modified authorities parameter. Upon registering in the JHipster portal and logging in as a standard user, the authorities parameter in the response from the api/account endpoint contains the value ROLE_USER. By manipulating the authorities parameter and changing its value to ROLE_ADMIN, the privilege is successfully escalated to an Admin level. This allowed the access to all admin-related functionalities in the application.
References
- ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-43712
- WEB https://firecompass.com/cve-2025-43712-jhipster-platform-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-discovered-by-firecompass-research-added-to-nist
- PACKAGE https://github.com/jhipster/generator-jhipster
- WEB https://github.com/jhipster/generator-jhipster/releases
- WEB https://groups.google.com/g/jhipster-dev/c/ATSlWkEjw2w
- WEB https://medium.com/@hritikgodara/cve-2025-43712-privilege-escalation-via-response-manipulation-in-the-jhipster-platform-5e18c0434def
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