CVE-2026-105121 (GCVE-0-2026-105121)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-03 12:14
Modified
2026-10-05 20:29
Severity ?
6.9 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
4.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
Summary
OpenAM before 16.1.3 contains an improper authorization vulnerability that allows delegated administrators to destroy sessions outside their realms because realm checks use the requester's realm. Authenticated accounts holding the iplanet-am-session-destroy-sessions attribute can supply a target session identifier or handle to forcibly log out users in any realm.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
OpenIdentityPlatform OpenAM Version: 0   ≤
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