CVE-2024-37905

high

Description

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.

References

https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/security/advisories/GHSA-c78c-2r9w-p7x4

https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/releases/tag/version%2F2024.6.0

https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/releases/tag/version%2F2024.4.3

https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/releases/tag/version%2F2024.2.4

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-06-28

Updated: 2025-08-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00251