Session Fixation Affecting next-auth package, versions <4.20.1
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- published 10 Mar 2023
- disclosed 10 Mar 2023
- credit Jesse Niininen
Introduced: 10 Mar 2023
CVE-2023-27490 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade next-auth to version 4.20.1 or higher.
Overview
next-auth is an Authentication for Next.js
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Session Fixation such that a bad actor who can read traffic on the victim's network or who is able to social engineer the victim to click a manipulated login link could intercept and tamper with the authorization URL to log in as the victim.
Workaround
Users unable to upgrade can use Advanced Initialization and manually check the callback request for state, pkce, and nonce against the provider configuration to prevent this issue.