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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2026-04-16 23:36

Modified

2026-09-08 08:34

Summary

Improper Access Control and Incorrect Authorization in github.com/goauthentik/authentik

Details

authentik is an open-source Identity Provider that emphasizes flexibility and versatility. Authentik API-Access-Token mechanism can be exploited to gain admin user privileges. A successful exploit of the issue will result in a user gaining full admin access to the Authentik application, including resetting user passwords and more. This issue has been patched in version(s) 2024.2.4, 2024.4.2 and 2024.6.0.

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "authentik",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/authentik"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2024.6.0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
      "severity": [
        {
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
          "type": "CVSS_V3"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2024-37905"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:goauthentik:authentik:*:*:*:*:*:go:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "High"
  },
  "details": "authentik is an open-source Identity Provider that emphasizes flexibility and versatility. Authentik API-Access-Token mechanism can be exploited to gain admin user privileges. A successful exploit of the issue will result in a user gaining full admin access to the Authentik application, including resetting user passwords and more. This issue has been patched in version(s) 2024.2.4, 2024.4.2 and 2024.6.0.",
  "id": "BIT-authentik-2024-37905",
  "modified": "2026-09-08T08:34:36.952Z",
  "published": "2026-04-16T23:36:13.946Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ARTICLE",
      "url": "https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/releases/tag/version%2F2024.2.4"
    },
    {
      "type": "ARTICLE",
      "url": "https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/releases/tag/version%2F2024.4.3"
    },
    {
      "type": "ARTICLE",
      "url": "https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/releases/tag/version%2F2024.6.0"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/security/advisories/GHSA-c78c-2r9w-p7x4"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-37905"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.6.2",
  "summary": "Improper Access Control and Incorrect Authorization in github.com/goauthentik/authentik"
}

CVE-2024-37905 (GCVE-0-2024-37905)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-06-28 17:09 – Updated: 2024-08-02 04:04

Title

Improper Access Control and Incorrect Authorization in github.com/goauthentik/authentik

Summary

Severity

8.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-07-02 17:03 UTC

CWE

CWE-284 - Improper Access Control
CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/security…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/releases…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/releases…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/releases…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
goauthentik	authentik	Affected: < 2024.6.0 Affected: < 2024.4.2 Affected: < 2024.2.4
goauthentik	authentik	Affected: 0 , < 2024.6.0 (custom) Affected: 0 , < 2024.4.2 (custom) Affected: 0 , < 2024.2.4 (custom) cpe:2.3:a:goauthentik:authentik::::::::

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                  }
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                "timestamp": "2024-07-02T17:03:36.338117Z",
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