CVE-2021-25940

ArangoDB - Insufficient Session Expiration after Password Change

State: Published
Severity: 8.8 High
Published: Nov 16, 2021
Updated: Apr 30, 2025
Reserved: Jan 22, 2021

Description

In ArangoDB, versions v3.7.6 through v3.8.3 are vulnerable to Insufficient Session Expiration. When a user’s password is changed by the administrator, the session isn’t invalidated, allowing a malicious user to still be logged in and perform arbitrary actions within the system.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	Mend

Weaknesses

CWE-613 Insufficient Session Expiration

Affected Products

Product	Versions
arangodbarangodb	v3.7.6 to before unspecifiedAffected v3.8.3 and earlierAffected

References

https://github.com/arangodb/arangodb/commit/e9c6ee9dcca7b9b4fbcd02a0b323d205bee838d3
https://www.whitesourcesoftware.com/vulnerability-database/CVE-2021-25940

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