DSpace is an open source turnkey repository application. In version 7.0, any community or collection administrator can escalate their permission up to become system administrator. This vulnerability only exists in 7.0 and does not impact 6.x or below. This issue is patched in version 7.1. As a workaround, users of 7.0 may temporarily disable the ability for community or collection administrators to manage permissions or workflows settings.

Affected: Maven: org.dspace:dspace-api

### Impact Any community or collection administrator can escalate their permission up to become system administrator.

This vulnerability only existed in 7.0 and does not impact 6.x or below.

### Patches Fix is included in [7.1](https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/releases/tag/dspace-7.1). Please upgrade to 7.1 at your earliest convenience.

### Workarounds In 7.0, temporarily disable the ability for community or collection administrators to manage permissions or workflows settings, i.e. set the following properties in your local.cfg / dspace.cfg file ``` core.authorization.collection-admin.policies = false core.authorization.community-admin.policies = false core.authorization.community-admin.collection.workflows = false ``` Once upgraded to 7.1, these settings can be safely reverted to the default values of `true`.

### References Discovered during investigation of https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/7928

### For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: * Email us at security@dspace.org