Answer in brief
CVE-2024-41942 records a High severity (CVSS 7.2) vulnerability in JupyterHub has a privilege escalation vulnerability with the `admin:users` scope. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps jupyterhub (pypi), jupyterhub (pypi), jupyterhub (pypi). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
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CVSS is 7.2. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.
Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
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The current feed maps jupyterhub (pypi), jupyterhub (pypi), jupyterhub (pypi). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| jupyterhubpypi | >=0 <99e2720b0fc626cbeeca3c6337f917fdacfaa428 <ff2db557a85b6980f90c3158634bf924063ab8ba | 99e2720b0fc626cbeeca3c6337f917fdacfaa428, ff2db557a85b6980f90c3158634bf924063ab8ba |
| jupyterhubpypi | >=0 <4.1.6 | 4.1.6 |
| jupyterhubpypi | >=5.0.0 <5.1.0 | 5.1.0 |
Published upstream
Aug 8, 2024
Evidence: source:osv:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Sep 10, 2026
Evidence: source:osv:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Aug 7, 2026
### Summary If a user is granted the `admin:users` scope, they may escalate their own privileges by making themselves a full admin user. ### Details The `admin:users` scope allows a user to edit user records: > admin:users > > Read, write, create and delete users and their authentication state, not including their servers or tokens. > > -- https://jupyterhub.readthedocs.io/en/stable/rbac/scopes.html#available-scopes However, this includes making users admins. Admin users are granted scopes beyond `admin:users` making this a mechanism by which granted scopes may be escalated. ### Impact The impact is relatively small in that `admin:users` is already an extremely privileged scope only granted to trusted users. In effect, `admin:users` is equivalent to `admin=True`, which is not intended. Note that the change here only prevents escalation to the built-in JupyterHub admin role that has unrestricted permissions. It does not prevent users with e.g. `groups` permissions from granting themselves or other users permissions via group membership, which is intentional.
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