CVE-2019-16097: Linuxfoundation Harbor

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 22.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

core/api/user.go in Harbor 1.7.0 through 1.8.2 allows non-admin users to create admin accounts via the POST /api/users API, when Harbor is setup with DB as authentication backend and allow user to do self-registration. Fixed version: v1.7.6 v1.8.3. v.1.9.0. Workaround without applying the fix: configure Harbor to use non-DB authentication backend such as LDAP.

Affected products

• Linuxfoundation Harbor: version 1.7.0 only; version 1.7.1 only; version 1.7.2 only; version 1.7.3 only; version 1.7.4 only; version 1.7.5 only; …

Published 2019-09-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.