Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessObtain or compromise org admin credentials
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DeliveryAuthenticate to Flowintel admin API
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ExploitIdentify full admin user account in same organization
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ExecutionSend crafted POST to user-edit endpoint with new password
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PersistAuthenticate as full administrator
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ImpactExercise unrestricted platform access
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A06:2025 - Insecure Design
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Least privilege enforcement
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Privilege Escalation The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires the attacker to possess valid organization administrator (org admin) credentials within the target Flowintel instance - this is confirmed by the CVSS PR:H rating and the authorization context described in the patch. The flaw is only reachable via the authenticated administrative user-edit API endpoint (POST). The limiting factors are: (1) the attacker must already be authenticated as an org admin, ruling out unauthenticated external actors; (2) the target must be a full administrator account within the same organization - cross-organization targeting is blocked by the pre-existing authorization check; (3) the instance must be running Flowintel >= 3.3.0. No special non-default configuration is required beyond having both org admin and full admin accounts co-existing in the same organization, which is a normal deployment state. |
| Impact | The CVSS 4.0 vector (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:L) scores 8.6, reflecting network reachability and high confidentiality/integrity impact, tempered by the high-privilege prerequisite. The PR:H rating is the most important limiting factor: exploitation requires an actor who already holds org admin credentials within the Flowintel instance. No EPSS data was provided in the input, and the vulnerability is absent from the CISA KEV catalog, meaning no confirmed active exploitation is known. No public proof-of-concept code has been identified. The realistic threat model centers on a malicious or compromised org admin performing internal privilege escalation to seize full administrator control - a meaningful insider-threat or post-compromise scenario rather than an external opportunistic attack. The high CVSS score is defensible given the potential blast radius (full admin takeover), but organizations should weigh it against the high-privilege entry requirement when prioritizing patching. EPSS is not available in the provided data; exploitation probability cannot be independently calculated. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker who has obtained or holds org admin credentials within a Flowintel instance sends a crafted POST request to the administrative user-edit API endpoint, targeting a full administrator account in the same organization. By supplying a new password in the request body, the attacker resets the full admin's credentials and subsequently authenticates as that higher-privileged account. No public proof-of-concept code exists at time of analysis, but the attack requires only standard HTTP API interaction. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Aug 27, 2026
Privilege escalation in Flowintel's administrative user-edit API allows an organization administrator to modify full administrator accounts within their own organization, including resetting passwords, effectively enabling account takeover of a higher-privileged identity. Affected versions are 3.3.0 and above, as confirmed by upstream commit ffe64d1133b7d84909a69661bd5fee607e9ce757 which adds the missing role-hierarchy boundary check. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and this vulnerability is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
RemediationAI
Apply the upstream patch available at https://github.com/flowintel/flowintel/commit/ffe64d1133b7d84909a69661bd5fee607e9ce757.patch, which adds the is_admin() boundary check to the user-edit API handler. A specific released patched version number is not confirmed in the available data - administrators should verify with the Flowintel project or CIRCL whether a tagged release incorporating this fix is available. As a compensating control pending patching, restrict org admin role assignments to the minimum necessary set of users, audit existing org admin accounts for legitimacy, and monitor the administrative user-edit API endpoint for unexpected invocations targeting full administrator accounts. Note that API-level access controls in a reverse proxy (e.g., blocking POST to the admin user-edit route for non-full-admin sessions) could reduce exposure but requires careful implementation to avoid breaking legitimate administrative workflows.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
Flowintel (CPE: cpe:2.3:a:flowintel:flowintel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*) is a threat intelligence platform maintained by CIRCL. The flaw resides in app/admin/admin_api.py within the POST handler for the user-edit endpoint. The root cause is CWE-269 (Improper Privilege Management): the existing authorization logic enforced an organizational boundary - org admins could not edit users in foreign organizations - but omitted a role-hierarchy check, failing to enforce that org admins are subordinate to full administrators. Because the is_admin() predicate on the target user was never consulted, a lateral-privilege actor (org admin) could overwrite a vertically superior account's credentials. The fix introduces an explicit guard returning HTTP 403 when the target user holds full administrator status.
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Severity by source
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Network-reachable API requires high privileges (org admin); no scope change as impact stays within the application; availability impact is low since the primary harm is credential modification, not disruption.
Primary rating from Vendor (CIRCL).
CVSS VectorVendor: CIRCL
DescriptionCVE.org
Affected versions of Flowintel contain an authorization flaw in the administrative user-edit API.
The existing authorization check correctly prevented an organization administrator from editing users in another organization, but it did not prevent them from editing a full administrator within their own organization. As a result, an org admin could modify that full administrator account, including changing its password. The upstream commit explicitly describes the issue as:
“Org admin can change the password of a full admin in the same organization.”
The fix adds a higher-privilege boundary check:
if user_to_edit.is_admin(): return ... 403
so organization administrators can no longer modify full administrator accounts.
Version impacted >=3.3.0
Executive ViewAI
Flowintel versions 3.3.0 and above contain a privilege escalation vulnerability in the administrative API that allows organization administrators to compromise higher-privileged accounts through unauthorized password reset and modification. This enables account takeover of critical admin identities with no public exploit currently identified, posing significant risk to system access controls and data security.
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Attack Technique
Privilege escalation occurs when an attacker leverages flaws in access control mechanisms to gain permissions beyond what they were originally granted.
Persistent session hijacking is possible in Flowintel version 3.3.0 and later because the application fails to invalidat
Remote code execution in Flowintel's alerts settings update endpoint (versions >= 3.3.0) allows an authenticated high-pr
Remote code execution via log path traversal in Flowintel 3.3.0 and later is achievable by an authenticated administrato
Broken object-level authorization across Flowintel task endpoints allows authenticated editor-level users to perform una
Flowintel's PDF export pipeline passes attacker-controlled note content to Pandoc with the raw_tex extension enabled, al
Log injection in Flowintel versions 3.3.0 and later allows unauthenticated remote attackers to forge arbitrary log lines
Stored XSS via Vue template injection in FlowIntel allows an authenticated low-privilege user to persist malicious Vue i
Server-side request forgery in FlowIntel up to version 3.3.0 allows a low-privileged authenticated user to coerce the ap
Insufficient authorization on the Flowintel /my_assignment/user API endpoint allows any authenticated API user to retrie
Stored cross-site scripting in Flowintel case notes allows an authenticated low-privileged user to inject malicious Java
Stored cross-site scripting in Flowintel's calendar view (versions >= 3.3.0) allows an authenticated user with case-crea
Stored cross-site scripting in Flowintel's MISP timeline renderer allows an authenticated low-privileged attacker to inj
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