Servers and applications
CVE-2019-19023
Privilege Escalation
- Severity
- High 8.8
- Published
- 3 Dec 2019
- Last changed
- 17 Jun 2026
- Added to UpHeron
- 1 Nov 2026
- Fixed in
- 1.8.6, 1.9.3
- Exploit chance
- 1.6% in the next 30 daysHigher than 76% of CVEs. EPSS by FIRST, 10 Nov 2026
- Attack
- Over the network · Needs a user account · No user action needed
- Attacker can
- Read data · Change data · Take it down
- CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H- Also known as
- GHSA-3868-7c5x-4827
- Sources
- NVD, Project advisories (GitHub)
Description
External Security Researchers have identified a privilege escalation critical vulnerability. The vulnerability allows a normal user to gain administrator account privileges by making an API call to modify the email address of a specific user. Subsequently they can reset the password for that email address and gain access to that account. The Harbor API did not enforce the proper permissions and scope on the API request to modify the email address. The vulnerability was immediately fixed by the Harbor team and all supported versions were patched.
Successful exploitation of this issue may lead to unauthorized access throughout the project
Workarounds
There is no workaround for this issue
Affected software
| Software | Affected versions |
|---|---|
HarborServers and applications · cpe:a:linuxfoundation:harbor |
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HarborServers and applications · github:goharbor/harbor |
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References
- NVD https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-19023
- CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-19023
- GitHub Advisory Database https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3868-7c5x-4827
- github.com https://github.com/goharbor/harbor/security/advisories/GHSA-3868-7c5x-4827