CVE-2024-41942
Published: 08 August 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-41942 is a high-severity Improper Handling of Insufficient Privileges (CWE-274) vulnerability in Jupyter Jupyterhub. Its CVSS base score is 7.2 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked at the 32.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
This vulnerability is AI-related — categorised as Other Platforms; in the Other ATLAS/OWASP Terms risk domain.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-0080
Vulnerability details
JupyterHub is software that allows one to create a multi-user server for Jupyter notebooks. Prior to versions 4.1.6 and 5.1.0, if a user is granted the `admin:users` scope, they may escalate their own privileges by making themselves a full admin…
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user. The impact is relatively small in that `admin:users` is already an extremely privileged scope only granted to trusted users. In effect, `admin:users` is equivalent to `admin=True`, which is not intended. Note that the change here only prevents escalation to the built-in JupyterHub admin role that has unrestricted permissions. It does not prevent users with e.g. `groups` permissions from granting themselves or other users permissions via group membership, which is intentional. Versions 4.1.6 and 5.1.0 fix this issue.
- CWE(s)
AI Security AnalysisAI
- AI Category
- Other Platforms
- Risk Domain
- Other ATLAS/OWASP Terms
- OWASP Top 10 for LLMs 2025
- None mapped
- Classification Reason
- JupyterHub is a multi-user server platform for Jupyter notebooks, widely used in AI/ML/data science workflows for collaborative development, training, and experimentation, making it relevant to AI platforms despite the vulnerability being a general privilege escalation issue.
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
CVE-2024-41942 allows authenticated users with the 'admin:users' scope to escalate privileges to full admin by editing their own user record, enabling exploitation for privilege escalation.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.