Privilege Escalation in Cloud Native Computing Foundation Harbor

published 2020-03-20 6y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also GHSA-q6cj-6jvq-jwmh , GO-2022-0863 , EUVD-2021-1161

cvss: 8.8; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.6%; EPSS 1.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 76%
public exploits: 0; none known

Cloud Native Computing Foundation Harbor prior to 1.8.6 and 1.9.3 has a Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in the VMware Harbor Container Registry for the Pivotal Platform.

Patch / fix

fixed in 2

go github.com/goharbor/harbor 1.8.6, 1.9.3
linuxfoundation harbor 1.8.6, 1.9.3

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Exploit prediction

1.62% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 76% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	6.5	AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub	3.1	9.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
go	github.com/goharbor/harbor	>=1.7.0, <1.8.6 >=1.9.0, <1.9.3	1.8.6 1.9.3

Classification

Weakness

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

References

github.com /goharbor/harbor/security/advisories
web, third-party-advisory
tanzu.vmware.com /security/cve-2019-19023
web, third-party-advisory
github.com /goharbor/harbor/security/advisories/GHSA-3868-7c5x-4827
web
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2019-19023
advisory
github.com /advisories/GHSA-q6cj-6jvq-jwmh
advisory

Sources

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