A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in IBM Aspera Orchestrator 4.0.1. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Password Change Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a session expiration vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-613. According to WASC, "Insufficient Session Expiration is when a web site permits an attacker to reuse old session credentials or session IDs for authorization." Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

IBM Aspera Orchestrator 4.0.1 does not invalidate session after a password change which could allow an authenticated user to impersonate another user on the system. IBM X-Force ID: 248477.

The advisory is available at ibm.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2023-26288 since 02/21/2023. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/13/2024).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (248477). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Aspera Orchestrator

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• 4.0.1

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