SkyPilot fails to validate that authenticated users are entitled to grant administrator roles when updating service account permissions. Attackers can create a service account, escalate it to administrator role, and authenticate with its bearer token to gain administrative control over all users and workspaces.

A vulnerability was detected in skypilot-org skypilot up to 0.12.0. Impacted is the function username.encode of the file sky/users/server.py of the component User ID Handler. The manipulation results in use of weak hash. The attack may be performed from remote. This attack is characterized by high complexity. The exploitability is considered difficult. The exploit is now public and may be used. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure.