CVE-2023-22738 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2023-22738

Improper Preservation of Permissions in vantage6

Vulnerability Description

vantage6 is a privacy preserving federated learning infrastructure for secure insight exchange. Assigning existing users to a different organizations is currently possible. It may lead to unintended access: if a user from organization A is accidentally assigned to organization B, they will retain their permissions and therefore might be able to access stuff they should not be allowed to access. This issue is patched in version 3.8.0.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

vantage6
Vulnerable Versions:
< 3.8.0

Timeline

Official Publish: March 1st, 2023
Last Modified: March 6th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-281

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.