High severity · published Oct 18, 2019
CVE-2019-16919
Harbor API has a Broken Access Control vulnerability
7.5
CVSS
1.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Harbor API has a Broken Access Control vulnerability. The vulnerability allows project administrators to use the Harbor API to create a robot account with unauthorized push and/or pull access permissions to a project they don't have access or control for. The Harbor API did not enforce the proper project permissions and project scope on the API request to create a new robot account.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.7% · higher than 77% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CF
Cloud Foundation · Vmware
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
HA
Harbor · Linuxfoundation
1.8.0 through 1.8.3; 1.9.0 · source: NVD
HC
Harbor Container Registry · Vmware
1.7.0 through 1.7.6; 1.8.0 before 1.8.4 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-16919
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-16919
Third Party Advisory
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2019-0016.html
Patch
https://github.com/goharbor/harbor/security/advisories/GHSA-x2r2-w9c7-h624
Product
https://landscape.cncf.io/selected=harbor
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