#VU55642 Insufficient Session Expiration in Jetty - CVE-2021-34428

 

#VU55642 Insufficient Session Expiration in Jetty - CVE-2021-34428

Published: August 8, 2021


Vulnerability identifier: #VU55642
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2021-34428
CWE-ID: CWE-613
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Jetty
Software vendor:
Eclipse

Description

The vulnerability allows an attacker to gain access to sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient session expiration issue. If an exception is thrown from the SessionListener#sessionDestroyed() method, then the session ID is not invalidated in the session ID manager. On deployments with clustered sessions and multiple contexts this can result in a session not being invalidated.


Remediation

Install updates from vendor's website.

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