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CVE-2022-41948 — DHIS 2 is an open source information system for data capture, management, valida

DHIS 2 is an open source information system for data capture, management, validation, analytics and visualization. Affected versions are subject to a privilege escalation vulnerability. A DHIS2 user with authority to manage users can assign superuser privileges to themself by man

CVSS
6.7 MEDIUM
EPSS
0.34% (top 43.70%)
CWE
CWE-269
Published
2022-12-08T22:14:12.992Z
Last modified
2025-04-23T16:30:33.084Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L

01What is this vulnerability?

DHIS 2 is an open source information system for data capture, management, validation, analytics and visualization. Affected versions are subject to a privilege escalation vulnerability. A DHIS2 user with authority to manage users can assign superuser privileges to themself by manually crafting an HTTP PUT request. Only users with the following DHIS2 user role authorities can exploit this…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
dhis2dhis2core — < 2.36.12.1, >= 2.37.0.0, < 2.37.8.1, >= 2.38.0.0, < 2.38.2.1, >= 2.39.0.0, < 2.39.0.1

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

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

09References

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