Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-25981 - Insufficient Session Expiration vulnerability in Talkyard
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
In Talkyard, regular versions v0.2021.20 through v0.2021.33 and dev versions v0.2021.20 through v0.2021.34, are vulnerable to Insufficient Session Expiration. This may allow an attacker to reuse the admin’s still-valid session token even when logged-out, to gain admin privileges, given the attacker is able to obtain that token (via other, hypothetical attacks)
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
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Application | 1 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://github.com/debiki/talkyard/commit/b0310df019887f3464895529c773bc7d85ddcf34
- https://github.com/debiki/talkyard/commit/b0310df019887f3464895529c773bc7d85ddcf34
- https://github.com/debiki/talkyard/commit/b0712915d8a22a20b09a129924e8a29c25ae5761
- https://github.com/debiki/talkyard/commit/b0712915d8a22a20b09a129924e8a29c25ae5761
- https://www.whitesourcesoftware.com/vulnerability-database/CVE-2021-25981
- https://www.whitesourcesoftware.com/vulnerability-database/CVE-2021-25981