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GoAuthentik vulnerable to Insufficient Authorization for several API endpoints

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Aug 22, 2024 in goauthentik/authentik • Updated Aug 28, 2024

Package

gomod goauthentik.io (Go)

Affected versions

>= 2024.6.0-rc1, < 2024.6.4
< 2024.4.4

Patched versions

2024.6.4
2024.4.4

Description

Summary

Several API endpoints can be accessed by users without correct authentication/authorization.

The main API endpoints affected by this:

  • /api/v3/crypto/certificatekeypairs/<uuid>/view_certificate/
  • /api/v3/crypto/certificatekeypairs/<uuid>/view_private_key/
  • /api/v3/.../used_by/

Note that all of the affected API endpoints require the knowledge of the ID of an object, which especially for certificates is not accessible to an unprivileged user. Additionally the IDs for most objects are UUIDv4, meaning they are not easily guessable/enumerable.

Patches

authentik 2024.4.4, 2024.6.4 and 2024.8.0 fix this issue.

Workarounds

Access to the API endpoints can be blocked at a Reverse-proxy/Load balancer level to prevent this issue from being exploited.

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References

@BeryJu BeryJu published to goauthentik/authentik Aug 22, 2024
Published by the National Vulnerability Database Aug 22, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Aug 22, 2024
Reviewed Aug 22, 2024
Last updated Aug 28, 2024

Severity

High

EPSS score

0.045%
(17th percentile)

CVE ID

CVE-2024-42490

GHSA ID

GHSA-qxqc-27pr-wgc8

Source code

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