CVE-2023-49097

ZITADEL vulnerable account takeover via malicious host header injection

State: Published
Severity: 8.1 High
Published: Nov 30, 2023
Updated: Nov 27, 2024
Reserved: Nov 21, 2023

Description

ZITADEL is an identity infrastructure system. ZITADEL uses the notification triggering requests Forwarded or X-Forwarded-Host header to build the button link sent in emails for confirming a password reset with the emailed code. If this header is overwritten and a user clicks the link to a malicious site in the email, the secret code can be retrieved and used to reset the users password and take over his account. Accounts with MFA or Passwordless enabled can not be taken over by this attack. This issue has been patched in versions 2.41.6, 2.40.10 and 2.39.9.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.1 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-640 Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password

Affected Products

Product	Versions
zitadelzitadel	>= 2.39.0, < 2.39.9Affected >= 2.40.0, < 2.40.10Affected >= 2.41.0, < 2.41.6Affected

References

https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/security/advisories/GHSA-2wmj-46rj-qm2w

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