CVE-2024-41942

HIGH

JupyterHub <4.1.6, 5.1.0 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

JupyterHub is software that allows one to create a multi-user server for Jupyter notebooks. Prior to versions 4.1.6 and 5.1.0, if a user is granted the `admin:users` scope, they may escalate their own privileges by making themselves a full admin user. The impact is relatively small in that `admin:users` is already an extremely privileged scope only granted to trusted users. In effect, `admin:users` is equivalent to `admin=True`, which is not intended. Note that the change here only prevents escalation to the built-in JupyterHub admin role that has unrestricted permissions. It does not prevent users with e.g. `groups` permissions from granting themselves or other users permissions via group membership, which is intentional. Versions 4.1.6 and 5.1.0 fix this issue.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.2
EPSS 0.0013
EPSS Percentile 32.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-274
Status published
Products (3)
jupyter/jupyterhub 5.0.0 (3 CPE variants)
jupyter/jupyterhub < 4.1.6
pypi/jupyterhub 0 - 4.1.6PyPI
Published Aug 08, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026