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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD5.5 Medium

CVE-2026-48493

Snipe-IT Vulnerable to Privilege Escalation for self via API Permissions Assignment

Description

Snipe-IT is an IT asset/license management system. In versions prior to 8.6.0, a user with only users.edit can send a PATCH to /api/v1/users/{their_own_id} and grant themselves any permission except admin and superuser — for example `assets.view`, `assets.create`, `reports.view`, import, etc. The issue is patched in version 8.6.0.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

grokability snipe-it

  • < 8.6.0affected

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