A vulnerability was found in Zitadel up to 2.39.8/2.40.9/2.41.5. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block of the component Header Handler. The manipulation of the argument X-Forwarded-Host with an unknown input leads to a password recovery vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-640. The product contains a mechanism for users to recover or change their passwords without knowing the original password, but the mechanism is weak. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The weakness was released 11/30/2023 as GHSA-2wmj-46rj-qm2w. It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2023-49097 since 11/21/2023. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1552 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 2.39.9, 2.40.10 or 2.41.6 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Zitadel

Version

• 2.39.0
• 2.39.1
• 2.39.2
• 2.39.3
• 2.39.4
• 2.39.5
• 2.39.6
• 2.39.7
• 2.39.8
• 2.40.0
• 2.40.1
• 2.40.2
• 2.40.3
• 2.40.4
• 2.40.5
• 2.40.6
• 2.40.7
• 2.40.8
• 2.40.9
• 2.41.0
• 2.41.1
• 2.41.2
• 2.41.3
• 2.41.4
• 2.41.5

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