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CVE-2026-42571

Pelican is a platform for creating data federations. From versions 7.21.0 to before 7.21.5, 7.22.0 to before 7.22.3, 7.23.0 to before 7.23.3, and 7.24.0 to before 7.24.2, there is a a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Pelican's Web User Interface (WebUI). This attack allows any user authenticated to the WebUI via OAuth to gain admin privileges under certain configurations. This issue has been patched in versions 7.21.5, 7.22.3, 7.23.3, and 7.24.2.
Lifecycle PUBLISHED1 preserved revisionFact urn:baitaphish:canonical-cve-fact-revision:v2:a19772d5bf42994001734deb31f2c862ccd15600d38773ec6ec6021ae51996fa
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
0

Affected products and versions

1 source assertion
{"product":"pelican","vendor":"PelicanPlatform","versions":[{"status":"affected","version":">= 7.21.0, < 7.21.5"},{"status":"affected","version":">= 7.22.0, < 7.22.3"},{"status":"affected","version":">= 7.23.0, < 7.23.3"},{"status":"affected","version":">= 7.24.0, < 7.24.2"}]}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:ea0643bc67932f01eae2ead472155296e96fc81682ece32ce675a66c855a86c2 · sha256:c067099cf5c97661… · /containers/cna/affected/0

Provider-owned CVSS observations

1 source assertion
{"metric":{"attackComplexity":"LOW","attackRequirements":"PRESENT","attackVector":"NETWORK","baseScore":9,"baseSeverity":"CRITICAL","privilegesRequired":"LOW","subAvailabilityImpact":"HIGH","subConfidentialityImpact":"HIGH","subIntegrityImpact":"HIGH","userInteraction":"NONE","vectorString":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H","version":"4.0","vulnAvailabilityImpact":"HIGH","vulnConfidentialityImpact":"HIGH","vulnIntegrityImpact":"HIGH"},"metric_type":"cvssV4_0"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:ea0643bc67932f01eae2ead472155296e96fc81682ece32ce675a66c855a86c2 · sha256:c067099cf5c97661… · /containers/cna/metrics/0/cvssV4_0

CWE assertions

1 source assertion
{"cweId":"CWE-863","description":"CWE-863: Incorrect Authorization","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:ea0643bc67932f01eae2ead472155296e96fc81682ece32ce675a66c855a86c2 · sha256:c067099cf5c97661… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

Source references

2 source assertions
{"name":"https://github.com/PelicanPlatform/pelican/commit/7f73b9c3e677a0ae4a0ec465c5d98bb8bd948854","tags":["x_refsource_MISC"],"url":"https://github.com/PelicanPlatform/pelican/commit/7f73b9c3e677a0ae4a0ec465c5d98bb8bd948854"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:ea0643bc67932f01eae2ead472155296e96fc81682ece32ce675a66c855a86c2 · sha256:c067099cf5c97661… · /containers/cna/references/1
{"name":"https://github.com/PelicanPlatform/pelican/security/advisories/GHSA-rpfr-x88x-xwcw","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM"],"url":"https://github.com/PelicanPlatform/pelican/security/advisories/GHSA-rpfr-x88x-xwcw"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:ea0643bc67932f01eae2ead472155296e96fc81682ece32ce675a66c855a86c2 · sha256:c067099cf5c97661… · /containers/cna/references/0

Attribution and limitations

  • CVE Program CVEList V5: Reproduce the MITRE copyright designation and CVE license in copies. Source →

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