CVE-2022-31168

MEDIUM

Zulip Server <5.5 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Zulip is an open source team chat tool. Due to an incorrect authorization check in Zulip Server 5.4 and earlier, a member of an organization could craft an API call that grants organization administrator privileges to one of their bots. The vulnerability is fixed in Zulip Server 5.5. Members who don’t own any bots, and lack permission to create them, can’t exploit the vulnerability. As a workaround for the vulnerability, an organization administrator can restrict the `Who can create bots` permission to administrators only, and change the ownership of existing bots.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Release Notes, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/zulip/zulip/releases/tag/5.5

Scores

CVSS v3 5.4
EPSS 0.0029
EPSS Percentile 52.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-285 CWE-863
Status published
Products (1)
zulip/zulip < 5.5
Published Jul 22, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026