CVE-2021-43781: Permissions not properly checked in Invenio-Drafts-Resources

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2021-12-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-862

Description

Invenio-Drafts-Resources is a submission/deposit module for Invenio, a software framework for research data management. Invenio-Drafts-Resources prior to versions 0.13.7 and 0.14.6 does not properly check permissions when a record is published. The vulnerability is exploitable in a default installation of InvenioRDM. An authenticated a user is able via REST API calls to publish draft records of other users if they know the record identifier and the draft validates (e.g. all require fields filled out). An attacker is not able to modify the data in the record, and thus e.g. *cannot* change a record from restricted to public. The problem is patched in Invenio-Drafts-Resources v0.13.7 and 0.14.6, which is part of InvenioRDM v6.0.1 and InvenioRDM v7.0 respectively.

Affected products

inveniosoftware invenio-drafts-resources: before 0.13.7; from 0.14.0 before 0.14.6 — fixed in 0.13.7, 0.14.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: inveniosoftware invenio-drafts-resources 0.13.7, 0.14.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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