Zitadel up to 2.44.2/2.45.0 Cookie privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Zitadel up to 2.44.2/2.45.0. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Cookie Handler. The manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability was named CVE-2024-28197. The attack can only be initiated within the local network. There is no exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Zitadel up to 2.44.2/2.45.0. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown functionality of the component Cookie Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Zitadel is an open source identity management system. Zitadel uses a cookie to identify the user agent (browser) and its user sessions. Although the cookie was handled according to best practices, it was accessible on subdomains of the ZITADEL instance. An attacker could take advantage of this and provide a malicious link hosted on the subdomain to the user to gain access to the victim’s account in certain scenarios. A possible victim would need to login through the malicious link for this exploit to work. If the possible victim already had the cookie present, the attack would not succeed. The attack would further only be possible if there was an initial vulnerability on the subdomain. This could either be the attacker being able to control DNS or a XSS vulnerability in an application hosted on a subdomain. Versions 2.46.0, 2.45.1, and 2.44.3 have been patched. Zitadel recommends upgrading to the latest versions available in due course. Note that applying the patch will invalidate the current cookie and thus users will need to start a new session and existing sessions (user selection) will be empty. For self-hosted environments unable to upgrade to a patched version, prevent setting the following cookie name on subdomains of your Zitadel instance (e.g. within your WAF): `__Secure-zitadel-useragent`.

The weakness was published 03/12/2024 as GHSA-mq4x-r2w3-j7mr. The advisory is shared at github.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-28197 since 03/06/2024. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 2.44.3, 2.45.1 or 2.46.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.5
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.5

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Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Local: No
Remote: Partially

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Status: Not defined

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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Zitadel 2.44.3/2.45.1/2.46.0

Timelineinfo

03/06/2024 🔍
03/12/2024 +6 days 🔍
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04/16/2025 +400 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: GHSA-mq4x-r2w3-j7mr
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2024-28197 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-28197
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-256425

Entryinfo

Created: 03/12/2024 06:58 AM
Updated: 04/16/2025 03:17 PM
Changes: 03/12/2024 06:58 AM (50), 01/07/2025 08:15 PM (27), 04/16/2025 03:17 PM (3)
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