DataCap through 2025.1.1 contains a missing authorization vulnerability that allows any authenticated user to escalate privileges by calling administrative role and menu management APIs. Attackers, including self-registered accounts, can send PUT requests to /api/v1/user/allocationRole to assign themselves the administrator role and gain full control of the instance.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 8.7 · devlive-communityNVD modified 2026-10-30 14:16
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 8
- https://github.com/devlive-community/metaforge/issues/969 issue-tracking
- https://github.com/devlive-community/metaforge/blob/2025.1.1/core/datacap-server/src/main/java/io/edurt/datacap/server/controller/user/UserController.java#L97-L108 technical-description
- https://github.com/devlive-community/metaforge/blob/2025.1.1/core/datacap-service/src/main/java/io/edurt/datacap/service/service/impl/UserServiceImpl.java#L104-L137 technical-description
- https://github.com/devlive-community/metaforge/blob/2025.1.1/core/datacap-server/src/main/java/io/edurt/datacap/server/controller/admin/RoleController.java#L34-L52 technical-description
- https://github.com/devlive-community/metaforge/blob/2025.1.1/core/datacap-security/src/main/java/io/edurt/datacap/security/SecurityConfigure.java#L63-L78 technical-description
- https://hackmd.io/@hieuPenguinnn/metaforge-datacap-allocation-role-missing-authz-privilege-escalation third-party-advisory
- https://github.com/devlive-community/metaforge product
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/datacap-through-2025.1.1-privilege-escalation-via-allocationrole-missing-authorization third-party-advisory