CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-37156

Insufficient Session Expiration

Published: Aug 05, 2021 | Modified: Aug 12, 2021
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Redmine 4.2.0 and 4.2.1 allow existing user sessions to continue upon enabling two-factor authentication for the users account, but the intended behavior is for those sessions to be terminated.

Weakness

According to WASC, “Insufficient Session Expiration is when a web site permits an attacker to reuse old session credentials or session IDs for authorization.”

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Redmine Redmine 4.2.0 (including) 4.2.0 (including)
Redmine Redmine 4.2.1 (including) 4.2.1 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References