March 28, 2024, 10:31 a.m. | MalBot

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Privilege Escalation Leads to RCE in Medplum


CVE Number

CVE-2024-29380


Loginsoft ID

Loginsoft-2024-1011


Description

The application “Medplum” is affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability that can lead to the execution of system commands. An attacker with practitioner privileges can elevate their status to a project admin using the ProjectMembership endpoint, enabling them to execute system commands through the bot editor.


CWE

CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management


CWE-94: Improper Control of Generation of Code (‘Code Injection’)


Affected Versions

< v3.0.7 …

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