EUVD-2026-22305Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Network-accessible REST API, low complexity; PR:L because exploitation requires an authenticated session with the users.edit role specifically assigned; no confidentiality or availability impact disclosed.
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4DescriptionCVE.org
An improper authorization vulnerability in the /api/v1/users/{id} endpoint of Snipe-IT v8.4.0 allows authenticated attackers with the users.edit permission to modify sensitive authentication and account-state fields of other non-admin users via supplying a crafted PUT request.
AnalysisAI
Improper authorization in Snipe-IT v8.4.0 allows authenticated attackers holding the users.edit permission to overwrite sensitive authentication and account-state fields on arbitrary non-admin user accounts via a crafted PUT request to /api/v1/users/{id}. A publicly available proof-of-concept exists (SSVC: poc), enabling low-complexity account manipulation or effective takeover of regular user accounts without requiring admin privileges. The vulnerability is not confirmed in CISA KEV, and with an EPSS of 0.03% (8th percentile) widespread automated exploitation appears unlikely at this time, though the POC lowers the barrier to targeted misuse.
Technical ContextAI
Snipe-IT is a widely deployed open-source IT asset management (ITAM) web application with a REST API layer. The affected endpoint, /api/v1/users/{id}, accepts HTTP PUT requests to update user account records. The CWE-285 (Improper Authorization) root cause indicates that the application verifies the caller holds the users.edit permission but does not enforce field-level authorization - meaning it fails to restrict which specific attributes (e.g., password reset tokens, email addresses, account-lock flags, or two-factor settings) a non-admin may modify on other accounts. This is a classic object-level authorization failure where permission to edit a resource is not scoped to the safe subset of that resource's fields. The NVD CPE data is listed as n/a, meaning exact CPE strings for affected versions have not yet been formally assigned; the affected version v8.4.0 is sourced from the CVE description itself.
RemediationAI
No vendor-released patch or fixed version has been identified in the available data - the references point to the vendor homepage (https://snipeitapp.com/) and the researcher's POC advisory (https://github.com/TREXNEGRO/Security-Advisories/tree/main/CVE-2026-38533) but do not cite a specific patched release. Organizations should monitor the Snipe-IT release channel for a remediation update. As an immediate compensating control, administrators should audit and restrict the users.edit permission to the minimum required trusted accounts, removing it from all non-administrative roles; this eliminates the prerequisite permission and blocks exploitation entirely. Additionally, deploying a WAF or API gateway rule to block PUT requests to /api/v1/users/{id} that contain authentication or account-state field keys (such as password, email, activated, two_factor_enabled) from non-admin sessions can reduce exposure, though this requires identifying the specific field names subject to abuse. Logging and alerting on all PUT requests to the users API endpoint will aid in detecting exploitation attempts.
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