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CVE-2026-55843: Snipe-IT: Improper Privilege Management

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 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: 2026-07-10 · updated 2026-10-25
• Weakness: CWE-269

Description

Snipe-IT is an IT asset/license management system. Prior to 8.6.0, UsersController::update() passes a missing permission request field through NormalizePermissionsPayloadAction and PreserveUnauthorizedPrivilegedPermissionsAction in a way that can overwrite a target user’s permissions with a sparse result, allowing an administrator updating another administrator, or a user with users.edit updating a regular account, to remove the target’s administrative or granular permissions. This issue is fixed in version 8.6.0.

Affected products

• grokability snipe-it: before 8.6.0 — fixed in 8.6.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: grokability snipe-it 8.6.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/grokability/snipe-it/commit/1cff2d67aabd00ee51d864c1d7fb717494c1d6ad
• https://github.com/grokability/snipe-it/releases/tag/v8.6.0
• https://github.com/grokability/snipe-it/security/advisories/GHSA-j5g3-42wp-gqm3

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