CyberRota Analysis
AI-GeneratedVersions 4.2.0 through 8.6.3 of Snipe-IT are vulnerable due to improper access controls on Laravel Passport's personal-access-token routes, allowing any authenticated user to create long-lived bearer tokens regardless of administrative restrictions. This vulnerability undermines the intended administrative controls by enabling users to bypass the self.api permission gate, potentially leading to unauthorized API access. Organizations using affected versions should prioritize patching to version 8.7.0 or later to mitigate this risk.
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Original NVD Description
Snipe-IT versions 4.2.0 through 8.6.3 expose Laravel Passport's auto-registered personal-access-token routes (GET, POST, DELETE /oauth/personal-access-tokens*) with only 'web' and 'auth:web' middleware, without the self.api permission gate that Snipe-IT enforces on its own token endpoints (/account/api and /api/v1/account/personal-access-tokens). Any user with a valid web session and the corresponding CSRF token can POST to /oauth/personal-access-tokens and mint a long-lived bearer token for their own account, even when an administrator has denied the self.api permission. The issued token is still subject to existing per-endpoint authorization policies, so this is not a privilege escalation; it defeats the administrative control intended to block API/scripted access at the user's own permission level. Fixed in 8.7.0 (commit 3f74b8c), which registers overriding routes wrapped in the can:self.api middleware.