Insufficient Session Expiration Affecting apostrophe package, versions >=2.63.0 <3.4.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.41% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-APOSTROPHE-1912882
  • published8 Nov 2021
  • disclosed8 Nov 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 Nov 2021

CVE-2021-25979  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-613  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade apostrophe to version 3.4.0 or higher.

Overview

apostrophe is a content management system (CMS) for Node.js. It supports in-context editing, schema-driven content types, flexible widgets and a great deal more. This module contains everything necessary to build a website with ApostropheCMS.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insufficient Session Expiration which allows unauthenticated remote attackers to hijack recently logged-in users' sessions.

Note: this only works if user switch locales after cutting.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1