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CVE-2023-36496: Delegated Admin Virtual Attribute Provider Privilege Escalation

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-02-01 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-269

Description

Delegated Admin Privilege virtual attribute provider plugin, when enabled, allows an authenticated user to elevate their permissions in the Directory Server.

Affected products

• Ping Identity PingDirectory: from 8.3.0.0 through 8.3.0.8; from 9.0.0.0 through 9.0.0.5; from 9.1.0.0 through 9.1.0.2; 9.2.0.0, 9.2.0.1, 9.3.0.0, 9.3.0.1

References

• https://docs.pingidentity.com/r/en-us/pingdirectory-93/ynf1693338390284
• https://support.pingidentity.com/s/article/SECADV039
• https://www.pingidentity.com/en/resources/downloads/pingdirectory-downloads.html
• https://docs.pingidentity.com/r/en-us/pingdirectory-93/ynf1693338390284
• https://support.pingidentity.com/s/article/SECADV039
• https://www.pingidentity.com/en/resources/downloads/pingdirectory-downloads.html

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