CVE-2019-16097

MediumCVSS 6.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

core/api/user.go in Harbor 1.7.0 through 1.8.2 allows non-admin users to create admin accounts via the POST /api/users API, when Harbor is setup with DB as authentication backend and allow user to do self-registration. Fixed version: v1.7.6 v1.8.3. v.1.9.0. Workaround without applying the fix: configure Harbor to use non-DB authentication backend such as LDAP.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 6.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-862

Affected software

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

References

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2019-0015.htmlThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/goharbor/harbor/commit/b6db8a8a106259ec9a2c48be8a380cb3b37cf517Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/goharbor/harbor/compare/v1.8.2...v1.9.0-rc1Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/goharbor/harbor/releases/tag/v1.7.6Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/goharbor/harbor/releases/tag/v1.8.3Third Party Advisory
https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/critical-vulnerability-in-harbor-enables-privilege-escalation-from-zero-to-admin-cve-2019-16097/Third Party Advisory
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2019-0015.htmlThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/goharbor/harbor/commit/b6db8a8a106259ec9a2c48be8a380cb3b37cf517Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/goharbor/harbor/compare/v1.8.2...v1.9.0-rc1Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/goharbor/harbor/releases/tag/v1.7.6Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/goharbor/harbor/releases/tag/v1.8.3Third Party Advisory
https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/critical-vulnerability-in-harbor-enables-privilege-escalation-from-zero-to-admin-cve-2019-16097/Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Sep 8, 2019
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

Related CVEs from 2019

CVE-2019-160987.8The driver in Micro-Star MSI Afterburner 4.6.2.15658 (aka RTCore64.sys and RTCore32.sys) allows any authenticated user to read and write to CVE-2019-160998.8Silver Peak EdgeConnect SD-WAN before 8.1.7.x allows CSRF via JSON data to a .swf file.CVE-2019-16106.7A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underly CVE-2019-161007.5Silver Peak EdgeConnect SD-WAN before 8.1.7.x allows remote attackers to trigger a web-interface outage via slow client-side HTTP traffic fr CVE-2019-161015.3Silver Peak EdgeConnect SD-WAN before 8.1.7.x allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive stack traces by sending incorrect JSON CVE-2019-161029.8Silver Peak EdgeConnect SD-WAN before 8.1.7.x has an SNMP service with a public value for rocommunity and trapcommunity.CVE-2019-161037.2Silver Peak EdgeConnect SD-WAN before 8.1.7.x allows privilege escalation (by administrators) from the menu to a root Bash OS shell via the CVE-2019-161046.1Silver Peak EdgeConnect SD-WAN before 8.1.7.x has reflected XSS via the rest/json/configdb/download/ PATH_INFO.CVE-2019-161054.9Silver Peak EdgeConnect SD-WAN before 8.1.7.x allows ..%2f directory traversal via a rest/json/configdb/download/ URI.CVE-2019-161067.5The Recruitment module in Humanica Humatrix 7 1.0.0.203 and 1.0.0.681 allows an unauthenticated attacker to change the password of any user CVE-2019-161074.3Missing form token validation in phpBB 3.2.7 allows CSRF in deleting post attachments.CVE-2019-161087.5phpBB 3.2.7 allows adding an arbitrary Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) token sequence to a page through BBCode.