Nexus Repository 3 contained a privilege escalation vulnerability in the REST privileges API. An authenticated user with permission to manage privileges could, under certain role configurations, escalate their own access to full administrator by exploiting a type-confusion flaw in the privilege update endpoint.

Nexus Repository 3 contained a privilege escalation vulnerability in the REST privileges API. An authenticated user with permission to manage privileges could, under certain role configurations, escalate their own access to full administrator by exploiting a type-confusion flaw in the privilege update endpoint.

Ein entfernter, authentisierter Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager ausnutzen, um Daten offenzulegen oder zu Manipulieren, Code auszuführen oder Rechte zu erweitern.