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GHSA-9J9M-8WJC-FF96

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2021-11-10 17:02 – Updated: 2022-08-22 22:01

Summary

Apostrophe CMS Insufficient Session Expiration vulnerability

Details

Apostrophe CMS versions between 2.63.0 to 3.3.1 affected by an insufficient session expiration vulnerability, which allows unauthenticated remote attackers to hijack recently logged-in users' sessions. As a mitigation for older releases the user account in question can be archived (3.x) or moved to the trash (2.x and earlier) which does disable the existing session.

Severity ?

9.8 (Critical)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2021-25979 (GCVE-0-2021-25979)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-11-08 14:20 – Updated: 2025-04-30 15:52

Summary

Apostrophe CMS versions prior to 3.3.1 did not invalidate existing login sessions when disabling a user account or changing the password, creating a situation in which a device compromised by a third party could not be locked out by those means. As a mitigation for older releases the user account in question can be archived (3.x) or moved to the trash (2.x and earlier) which does disable the existing session.

Severity ?

9.8 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

CWE-613 - Insufficient Session Expiration

Assigner

Mend

References

URL

Tags

https://github.com/apostrophecms/apostrophe/commi…

x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Apostrophe	Apostrophe	Affected: unspecified , ≤ 3.3.1 (custom) Affected: 2.63.0 , < unspecified (custom)

Credits

Daniel Elkabes

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Sightings

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Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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GHSA-9J9M-8WJC-FF96

CVE-2021-25979 (GCVE-0-2021-25979)

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