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CVE-2021-43781

Permissions not properly checked in Invenio-Drafts-Resources

6.4 MediumFix available

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.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges needed
Low
User interaction
None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

Exploit likelihood

0.68%Up 0.1 points since Dec 7, 2021
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

CVE List Score used 6.4

Permissions not properly checked in Invenio-Drafts-Resources

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.

Record
CVE-2021-43781
CVSS 3.1
6.4 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weakness
CWE-862
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2021-0102 6.4

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.

Record
EUVD-2021-0102
CVSS 3.1
6.4 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-xr38-w74q-r8jv 5.1

Permissions not properly checked in Invenio-Drafts-Resources

Impact

Invenio-Drafts-Resources does not properly check permissions when a record is published. The vulnerability is exploitable in a default installation of InvenioRDM. An authenticated 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.

Details

The service's publish() method contains the following permission check:

def publish(..):
    self.require_permission(identity, "publish")

However, the record should have been passed into the permission check so that the need generators have access to e.g. the record owner.

def publish(..):
    self.require_permission(identity, "publish", record=record)

The bug is activated in Invenio-RDM-Records which has a need generator called RecordOwners(), which when no record is passed in defaults to allow any authenticated user:

class RecordOwners(Generator):
    def needs(self, record=None, **kwargs):
        if record is None:
            return [authenticated_user]
    # ...

Patches

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.

You can verify the version installed of Invenio-Drafts-Resources via PIP:

cd ~/src/my-site
pipenv run pip freeze | grep invenio-drafts-resources

References

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

Record
GHSA-xr38-w74q-r8jv
CVSS 4.0
5.1 MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
CVSS 3.1
6.4 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weakness
CWE-862, CWE-863
Updated
2026-11-02
NVD 6.4

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.

Record
CVE-2021-43781
CVSS 3.1
6.4 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS 3.1
4.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0
4.0 MediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weakness
CWE-862, CWE-863
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV 4.3

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.

Record
CVE-2021-43781
CVSS 3.1
4.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVGHSA-xr38-w74q-r8jv 5.1

Permissions not properly checked in Invenio-Drafts-Resources

Impact

Invenio-Drafts-Resources does not properly check permissions when a record is published. The vulnerability is exploitable in a default installation of InvenioRDM. An authenticated 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.

Details

The service's publish() method contains the following permission check:

def publish(..):
    self.require_permission(identity, "publish")

However, the record should have been passed into the permission check so that the need generators have access to e.g. the record owner.

def publish(..):
    self.require_permission(identity, "publish", record=record)

The bug is activated in Invenio-RDM-Records which has a need generator called RecordOwners(), which when no record is passed in defaults to allow any authenticated user:

class RecordOwners(Generator):
    def needs(self, record=None, **kwargs):
        if record is None:
            return [authenticated_user]
    # ...

Patches

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.

You can verify the version installed of Invenio-Drafts-Resources via PIP:

cd ~/src/my-site
pipenv run pip freeze | grep invenio-drafts-resources

References

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

Record
GHSA-xr38-w74q-r8jv
CVSS 4.0
5.1 MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
CVSS 3.1
6.4 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weakness
CWE-862, CWE-863
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVPYSEC-2021-836 No score

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.

Record
PYSEC-2021-836
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVPYSEC-2021-837 No score

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.

Record
PYSEC-2021-837
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVPYSEC-2021-838 No score

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.

Record
PYSEC-2021-838
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
invenio-drafts-resources
PyPI
 before 0.13.7
0.13.7
invenio-app-rdm
PyPI
 before 6.0.5
6.0.5
invenio-rdm-records
PyPI
 before 0.32.6
0.32.6
invenio-drafts-resources
PyPI
 0.14.0 up to 0.14.6
0.14.6
invenio-rdm-records
PyPI
 0.33.0 up to 0.33.10
0.33.10
invenio-app-rdm
PyPI
 7.0.0.dev0 up to 7.0.0.dev5
7.0.0.dev5
invenio-drafts-resources
PyPI
 before 0.13.7, plus listed versions
0.1.00.1.20.1.30.10.00.10.1
Show 45 moreShow less
0.10.100.10.20.10.30.10.40.10.50.10.60.10.70.10.80.10.90.11.00.11.10.11.20.11.30.11.40.11.50.11.60.12.00.12.10.12.20.13.00.13.10.13.20.13.30.13.40.13.50.13.60.2.00.2.10.2.20.2.30.2.40.3.00.4.00.4.10.4.20.4.30.5.00.6.00.6.10.6.20.7.00.7.10.7.20.8.00.8.1
0.13.7
invenio-app-rdm
PyPI
 before 6.0.5, plus listed versions
0.10.00.10.10.11.00.11.10.11.2
Show 45 moreShow less
0.12.00.12.10.12.20.12.30.12.40.12.50.13.00.14.00.14.10.14.20.14.30.14.40.14.50.14.60.14.70.14.80.15.00.16.00.16.10.16.20.16.30.16.40.16.50.16.60.17.00.17.10.17.20.17.30.17.40.18.00.18.20.18.30.18.40.18.50.18.60.18.70.18.80.19.00.19.10.19.20.19.30.19.40.19.50.19.60.19.7
6.0.5
invenio-rdm-records
PyPI
 before 0.32.6, plus listed versions
0.10.00.10.10.11.00.11.10.12.0
Show 45 moreShow less
0.13.00.13.10.13.20.13.30.13.40.14.00.14.10.15.00.16.00.17.00.17.10.18.00.18.10.18.20.18.30.19.00.19.10.20.00.20.10.20.20.20.30.20.40.20.60.20.70.20.80.21.00.22.00.22.10.23.00.23.10.23.100.23.20.23.30.23.40.23.50.23.60.23.70.23.80.23.90.24.10.24.20.24.30.24.40.24.50.24.6
0.32.6
invenio-drafts-resources
PyPI
 0.14.0 up to 0.14.6, plus listed versions
0.14.10.14.20.14.30.14.5
0.14.6
Show 5 moreShow less
Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
invenio-rdm-records
PyPI
 0.33.0 up to 0.33.10, plus listed versions
0.33.10.33.20.33.30.33.40.33.5
Show 4 moreShow less
0.33.60.33.70.33.80.33.9
0.33.10
invenio-app-rdm
PyPI
 7.0.0.dev0 up to 7.0.0.dev5, plus listed versions
7.0.0.dev17.0.0.dev27.0.0.dev37.0.0.dev4
7.0.0.dev5
invenio-drafts-resources
PyPI
 before 0.13.7, 0.14.0 up to 0.14.6, plus listed versions
0.1.00.1.20.1.30.10.00.10.1
Show 45 moreShow less
0.10.100.10.20.10.30.10.40.10.50.10.60.10.70.10.80.10.90.11.00.11.10.11.20.11.30.11.40.11.50.11.60.12.00.12.10.12.20.13.00.13.10.13.20.13.30.13.40.13.50.13.60.14.10.14.20.14.30.14.50.2.00.2.10.2.20.2.30.2.40.3.00.4.00.4.10.4.20.4.30.5.00.6.00.6.10.6.20.7.0
0.13.70.14.6
invenio-app-rdm
PyPI
 before 6.0.5, 7.0.0.dev0 up to 7.0.0.dev5, plus listed versions
0.10.00.10.10.11.00.11.10.11.2
Show 45 moreShow less
0.12.00.12.10.12.20.12.30.12.40.12.50.13.00.14.00.14.10.14.20.14.30.14.40.14.50.14.60.14.70.14.80.15.00.16.00.16.10.16.20.16.30.16.40.16.50.16.60.17.00.17.10.17.20.17.30.17.40.18.00.18.20.18.30.18.40.18.50.18.60.18.70.18.80.19.00.19.10.19.20.19.30.19.40.19.50.19.60.19.7
6.0.57.0.0.dev5
invenio-rdm-records
PyPI
 before 0.32.6, 0.33.0 up to 0.33.10, plus listed versions
0.10.00.10.10.11.00.11.10.12.0
Show 45 moreShow less
0.13.00.13.10.13.20.13.30.13.40.14.00.14.10.15.00.16.00.17.00.17.10.18.00.18.10.18.20.18.30.19.00.19.10.20.00.20.10.20.20.20.30.20.40.20.60.20.70.20.80.21.00.22.00.22.10.23.00.23.10.23.100.23.20.23.30.23.40.23.50.23.60.23.70.23.80.23.90.24.10.24.20.24.30.24.40.24.50.24.6
0.32.60.33.10

History

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In short

CVE-2021-43781 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.4) in Inveniosoftware Invenio-drafts-resources, published December 6, 2021. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.68%, the 52nd percentile. Fixed in invenio-drafts-resources 0.13.7.

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