Executive brief
snipe-it is an open-source asset management system used by organizations to track hardware, software, and IT inventory. This vulnerability allows restricted users (such as those from specific departments or companies) to delete or disable user accounts outside their authorized scope by manipulating bulk delete requests. An attacker with restricted access could disable executives, high-privileged admins, or users from other departments, causing service disruption and unauthorized account modifications.
Technical details
The vulnerability is an authorization bypass (CWE-639) in the bulk user delete endpoint. The vulnerable component fails to validate whether the authenticated user has permission to delete each user ID included in the bulk delete payload, relying instead only on instance-level delete permissions. An authenticated attacker with restricted delete privileges can craft a bulk delete request containing unauthorized user IDs and successfully soft-delete users outside their authorized scope (e.g., from other companies or with higher privileges). The attack requires authentication and network access to the snipe-it instance but no user interaction. Patches are available in version 8.6.3 and later.
Affected products
- grokability snipe-it before 8.6.3
Timeline
- 2026-08-11: disclosed
- 2026-09-04: advisory
- 2026-09-04: patched: Version 8.6.3 released