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CVE-2023-40273 — The session fixation vulnerability allowed the authenticated user to continue ac

The session fixation vulnerability allowed the authenticated user to continue accessing Airflow webserver even after the password of the user has been reset by the admin - up until the expiry of the session of the user. Other than manually cleaning the session database (for datab

CVSS
EPSS
32.00% (top 45.70%)
CWE
CWE-384
Published
2023-08-23T15:37:49.378Z
Last modified
2024-09-27T20:29:59.422Z
CVSS vector

01What is this vulnerability?

The session fixation vulnerability allowed the authenticated user to continue accessing Airflow webserver even after the password of the user has been reset by the admin - up until the expiry of the session of the user. Other than manually cleaning the session database (for database session backend), or changing the secure_key and restarting the webserver, there were no mechanisms to force-logout…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
Apache Software FoundationApache Airflow0

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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