CVE-2018-20345 — Incorrect access control in StackStorm API (st2api) in StackStorm before 2

Incorrect access control in StackStorm API (st2api) in StackStorm before 2.9.2 and 2.10.x before 2.10.1 allows an attacker (who has a StackStorm account and is authenticated against the StackStorm API) to retrieve datastore items for other users by utilizing the /v1/keys "?s

01What is this vulnerability?

Incorrect access control in StackStorm API (st2api) in StackStorm before 2.9.2 and 2.10.x before 2.10.1 allows an attacker (who has a StackStorm account and is authenticated against the StackStorm API) to retrieve datastore items for other users by utilizing the /v1/keys "?scope=all" and "?user=<username>" query filter parameters. Enterprise editions with RBAC enabled are not affected.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-12-21T19:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-09-17T00:42:16.370Z

09References

• stackstorm.com — https://stackstorm.com/2018/12/20/stackstorm-v2-9-2-and-v2-10-1-a-security-relea…