Pow up to 1.0.33 Cache improper validation of certificate expiration

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Pow up to 1.0.33. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Cache. The manipulation leads to improper validation of certificate expiration. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2023-42446. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Pow up to 1.0.33. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Cache. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper validation of certificate expiration vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-298. A certificate expiration is not validated or is incorrectly validated, so trust may be assigned to certificates that have been abandoned due to age. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Pow is a authentication and user management solution for Phoenix and Plug-based apps. Starting in version 1.0.14 and prior to version 1.0.34, use of `Pow.Store.Backend.MnesiaCache` is susceptible to session hijacking as expired keys are not being invalidated correctly on startup. A session may expire when all `Pow.Store.Backend.MnesiaCache` instances have been shut down for a period that is longer than a session's remaining TTL. Version 1.0.34 contains a patch for this issue. As a workaround, expired keys, including all expired sessions, can be manually invalidated.

The weakness was presented 09/19/2023 as 713. It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2023-42446 since 09/08/2023. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1557.003 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 1.0.34 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Pow

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• 1.0.0
• 1.0.1
• 1.0.2
• 1.0.3
• 1.0.4
• 1.0.5
• 1.0.6
• 1.0.7
• 1.0.8
• 1.0.9
• 1.0.10
• 1.0.11
• 1.0.12
• 1.0.13
• 1.0.14
• 1.0.15
• 1.0.16
• 1.0.17
• 1.0.18
• 1.0.19
• 1.0.20
• 1.0.21
• 1.0.22
• 1.0.23
• 1.0.24
• 1.0.25
• 1.0.26
• 1.0.27
• 1.0.28
• 1.0.29
• 1.0.30
• 1.0.31
• 1.0.32
• 1.0.33

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