{"id":"CVE-2023-32696","summary":"Excessive permissions for ckan user","details":"CKAN is an open-source data management system for powering data hubs and data portals. Prior to versions 2.9.9 and 2.10.1, the `ckan` user (equivalent to www-data) owned code and configuration files in the docker container and the `ckan` user had the permissions to use sudo. These issues allowed for code execution or privilege escalation if an arbitrary file write bug was available. Versions 2.9.9, 2.9.9-dev, 2.10.1, and 2.10.1-dev contain a patch.\n\n\n\n","aliases":["GHSA-c74x-xfvr-x5wg"],"modified":"2026-08-12T03:51:41.142176851Z","published":"2023-05-30T18:33:53.862Z","database_specific":{"unresolved_ranges":[{"source":"AFFECTED_FIELD","extracted_events":[{"fixed":"2.9.9"},{"introduced":"2.10.0"},{"fixed":"2.10.1"}]}],"cna_assigner":"GitHub_M","cwe_ids":["CWE-269"],"osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/32xxx/CVE-2023-32696.json"},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/32xxx/CVE-2023-32696.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/ckan/ckan-docker-base/security/advisories/GHSA-c74x-xfvr-x5wg"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-32696"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/ckan/ckan-docker-base/commit/5483c46ce9b518a4e1b626ef7032cce2c1d75c7d"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/ckan/ckan","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"13c6d752e86f0e3501f953a9fdde15d038bad87b"},{"introduced":"70bec6611003b96ec7a02abb9605afdfb0964ad9"},{"last_affected":"70bec6611003b96ec7a02abb9605afdfb0964ad9"}],"database_specific":{"cpe":["cpe:2.3:a:okfn:ckan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","cpe:2.3:a:okfn:ckan:2.10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"],"extracted_events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.9.9"},{"introduced":"2.10.0"},{"last_affected":"2.10.0"}],"source":["CPE_RANGE","CPE_STRING"]}}],"versions":["2.10.0","ckan-2.10.0","ckan-2.9.8","ckan-2.9.7","ckan-2.9.6","ckan-2.9.5","ckan-2.9.4","ckan-2.9.3","ckan-2.9.2","ckan-2.9.1","ckan-2.9.0","ckan-1.5","ckan-1.4.3","ckan-1.3.3b"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-32696.json"}},{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/ckan/ckan-docker-base","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"5483c46ce9b518a4e1b626ef7032cce2c1d75c7d"}],"database_specific":{"source":"REFERENCES"}}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-32696.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}