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Insufficient Session Expiration

CVE-2021-22136

Low
3.5/10

Summary

In Kibana versions before 7.12.0 and 6.8.15 a flaw in the session timeout was discovered where the xpack.security.session.idleTimeout setting is not being respected. This was caused by background polling activities unintentionally extending authenticated users sessions, preventing a user session from timing out.

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  • PHYSICAL
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  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
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CWE-613 - Insufficient Session Expiration

According to WASC, "Insufficient Session Expiration is when a web site permits an attacker to reuse old session credentials or session IDs for authorization."

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published