CVE-2021-25979 (GCVE-0-2021-25979)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-11-08 14:20 – Updated: 2025-04-30 15:52
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Apostrophe - Insufficient Session Expiration
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)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-30 15:48 UTC
CWE
- CWE-613 - Insufficient Session Expiration
Assigner
Mend
CNA
References
1 reference
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/apostrophecms/apostrophe/commi… | x_refsource_MISC |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apostrophe | Apostrophe |
Affected:
unspecified , ≤ 3.3.1
(custom)
Affected: 2.63.0 , < unspecified (custom) |
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