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title: Privilege Escalation in TYPO3 Neos
url: "https://news.typo3.com/article/typo3-neos-sa-2015-001"
description: It has been discovered that TYPO3 Neos is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation.
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date: 2026-06-11
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# Privilege Escalation in TYPO3 Neos

Privilege Escalation in TYPO3 Neos
==================================

28 March 2015

It has been discovered that TYPO3 Neos is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation.

- ![](https://news.typo3.com/typo3temp/assets/t3g/blog/gravatar/7569d41262328e5ed8d27b53e03970ec.png)[Helmut Hummel](https://news.typo3.com/article/author/helmut-hummel)

**Component Type:** TYPO3 Neos

**Release Date:** March 28, 2015

**Bulletin Update:** none

**Vulnerability Type:** Authentication Bypass
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**Affected Versions:** 1.1.0 to 1.1.2 and 1.2.0 to 1.2.2

**Severity:** Low

**Suggested CVSS v2.0:** [AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N/E:F/RL:OF/RC:C](http://nvd.nist.gov/cvss.cfm?version=2&vector=(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N/E:F/RL:OF/RC:C))

**CVE:**  not assigned yet

**Problem Description:** It has been discovered that TYPO3 Neos is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation. Logged in editors could access, create and modify content nodes that exist in the workspace of other editors.

**Solution:** Update to TYPO3 Neos versions 1.1.3 or 1.2.3 that fix the problem described.

**Credits:** Thanks to Robert Lemke who discovered and to Andreas Förthner who reported and fixed the vulnerability.

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