Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks. Prior to version 3.3.3, a privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Joplin server, allowing non-admin users to exploit the API endpoint `PATCH /api/users/:id` to set the `is_admin` field to 1. The vulnerability allows malicious low-privileged users to perform administrative actions without proper authorization. This issue has been patched in version 3.3.3.
History

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Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Joplin Project
Joplin Project joplin
Weaknesses NVD-CWE-noinfo
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:joplin_project:joplin:*:*:*:*:*:-:*:*
Vendors & Products Joplin Project
Joplin Project joplin

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Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Description Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks. Prior to version 3.3.3, a privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Joplin server, allowing non-admin users to exploit the API endpoint `PATCH /api/users/:id` to set the `is_admin` field to 1. The vulnerability allows malicious low-privileged users to perform administrative actions without proper authorization. This issue has been patched in version 3.3.3.
Title Privilege escalation in Joplin server via user patch endpoint
Weaknesses CWE-284
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2025-04-30T14:55:10.285Z

Updated: 2025-04-30T15:11:12.895Z

Reserved: 2025-02-19T16:30:47.774Z

Link: CVE-2025-27134

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-04-30T15:11:00.407Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2025-04-30T15:16:00.927

Modified: 2025-05-16T16:32:35.957

Link: CVE-2025-27134

cve-icon Redhat

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