{"id":"GHSA-4pvx-fwjj-8gpc","revision":"3a985fb0ace146a59d69fbd844427b81","records":[{"revision":"3a985fb0ace146a59d69fbd844427b81","observedAt":"2026-10-24T13:17:17.793+00:00","statement":{"source":"osv","id":"GHSA-4pvx-fwjj-8gpc","aliases":["BIT-ghost-2026-104412","BIT-ghost-2026-105678","CVE-2026-104412","CVE-2026-105678"],"title":"Ghost: Editors Could Promote Staff Users to Their Own Role","description":"### Impact\n\nStaff users with the Editor or Super Editor role were able to assign their own role to Author and Contributor users, despite not having permission to assign that role.\n\n### Vulnerable versions\n\nThis vulnerability is present in Ghost from v0.5.0 up to v6.64.0.\n\n### Patches\n\nv6.64.0 contains a fix for this issue.\n\n### How to update\n\nFor self-hosters using Docker, find [Docker's official Ghost image here](https://hub.docker.com/_/ghost). Updating a Docker-based Ghost instance [is documented here](https://docs.ghost.org/install/docker#updating-ghost). \n\nIf your Ghost is a Ghost-CLI install see our documentation on [updating it to the latest version here](https://docs.ghost.org/update). \n\n### References\n\nGhost thanks [SecBuddyF](https://github.com/SecBuddyF) of [Tencent KeenLab](https://github.com/KeenSecurityLab), [Santosh Kumar Puppala](https://github.com/Santoshkumarpuppala), Pedro Pinho, and [Nhat Anh Vu](https://github.com/nhattanhh) for disclosing this vulnerability responsibly.\n\n### For more information\n\nIf you have any questions or comments about this advisory, email us at [security@ghost.org](mailto:security@ghost.org).","state":0,"publishedAt":"2026-10-07T20:26:03+00:00","modifiedAt":"2026-10-13T08:26:08.7101903+00:00","affected":[{"ecosystem":"npm","name":"ghost","ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"kind":"introduced","version":"0.5.0"},{"kind":"fixed","version":"6.64.0"}]}],"versions":[],"rawVersionEvidence":null}],"metrics":[{"system":"CVSS_V3","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N","score":null,"severity":null},{"system":"Publisher rating","vector":null,"score":null,"severity":"MODERATE"}],"references":["https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/security/advisories/GHSA-4pvx-fwjj-8gpc","https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-105678","https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/issues/30764","https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/pull/30764","https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/commit/99c5642b9bb481df4811a004a6f19d6143ed9aaf","https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost","https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/releases/tag/v6.64.0"],"sourceUrl":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4pvx-fwjj-8gpc","license":"GitHub Advisory Database · CC-BY-4.0","key":"osv:GHSA-4pvx-fwjj-8gpc","identifiers":["GHSA-4pvx-fwjj-8gpc","BIT-ghost-2026-104412","BIT-ghost-2026-105678","CVE-2026-104412","CVE-2026-105678"]},"retained":false,"historicalAffected":[]}],"coverage":[]}