{"id":80978,"date":"2026-06-24T01:41:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T22:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-48493-snipe-it-vulnerable-to-privilege-escalation-for-self-via-api-permissions-assignment\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T01:41:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T22:11:06","slug":"cve-2026-48493-snipe-it-vulnerable-to-privilege-escalation-for-self-via-api-permissions-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-48493-snipe-it-vulnerable-to-privilege-escalation-for-self-via-api-permissions-assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-48493 &#8211; Snipe-IT Vulnerable to Privilege Escalation for self via API Permissions Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-48493<\/p>\n<p>  Published : June 23, 2026, 10:11 p.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 33\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :Snipe-IT is an IT asset\/license management system. In versions prior to 8.6.0, a user with only users.edit can send a PATCH to \/api\/v1\/users\/{their_own_id} and grant themselves any permission except admin and superuser \u2014 for example `assets.view`, `assets.create`, `reports.view`, import, etc. The issue is patched in version 8.6.0.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 0.0 | NA<\/p>\n<p>  Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-48493 Published : June 23, 2026, 10:11 p.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 33\u00a0minutes ago Description :Snipe-IT is an IT asset\/license management system. In versions prior to 8.6.0, a user with only users.edit can send a PATCH to \/api\/v1\/users\/{their_own_id} and grant themselves any permission except admin and superuser \u2014 for example `assets.view`, `assets.create`, `reports.view`, import, etc. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}