CVE-2018-1000634: Openmicroscopy Omero

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Open Microscopy Environment OMERO.server version 5.4.0 to 5.4.6 contains an Improper Access Control vulnerability in User management that can result in administrative user with privilege restrictions logging in as a more powerful administrator. This attack appear to be exploitable via Use user administration privilege to set the password of a more powerful administrator. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 5.4.7.

Affected products

• Openmicroscopy Omero: from 5.4.0, up to and including 5.4.6

Published 2018-08-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.