CVE-2023-48712

User authorization bug leading to privilege escalation in warpgate

Published Nov 24, 2023 CVSS 3.1 · 7.1 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
Warpgate is an open source SSH, HTTPS and MySQL bastion host for Linux. In affected versions there is a privilege escalation vulnerability through a non-admin user's account. Limited users can impersonate another user's account if only single-factor authentication is configured. If a user knows an admin username, opens the login screen and attempts to authenticate with an incorrect password they can subsequently enter a valid non-admin username and password they will be logged in as the admin user. All installations prior to version 0.9.0 are affected. All users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-52748 Warpgate is an open source SSH, HTTPS and MySQL bastion host for Linux. In affected versions there is a privilege escalation vulnerability through a non-admin user's account. Limited users can impersonate another user's account if only single-factor authentication is configured. If a user knows an admin username, opens the login screen and attempts to authenticate with an incorrect password they can subsequently enter a valid non-admin username and password they will be logged in as the admin user. All installations prior to version 0.9.0 are affected. All users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Aug 2, 2024, 9:37 PM
Reserved
Nov 17, 2023, 7:43 PM
Status
Modified
Published
Nov 24, 2023, 5:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 6:34 AM