CVE-2023-22738 MEDIUM

CVE-2023-22738: Improper Preservation of Permissions in vantage6

Vendor Vantage6
Product vantage6
Weakness CWE-281
Published March 1, 2023
Last update March 6, 2025

CVSS base score

6.3/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction Required
Confidentiality High
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

vantage6 is a privacy preserving federated learning infrastructure for secure insight exchange. Assigning existing users to a different organizations is currently possible. It may lead to unintended access: if a user from organization A is accidentally assigned to organization B, they will retain their permissions and therefore might be able to access stuff they should not be allowed to access. This issue is patched in version 3.8.0.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

March 1, 2023 CVE published
March 6, 2025 Record updated