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High · 8.1 CVE-2023-49097 EUVD-2023-2852GHSA-2wmj-46rj-qm2w

ZITADEL vulnerable account takeover via malicious host header injection

Published Nov 30, 2023 · Updated Nov 27, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
zitadel zitadel >= 2.39.0, < 2.39.9, >= 2.40.0, < 2.40.10, >= 2.41.0, < 2.41.6 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/zitadel/zitadel >= 2.39.0, < 2.39.9 2.39.9 GHSA-2wmj-46rj-qm2w
Go github.com/zitadel/zitadel >= 2.40.0, < 2.40.10 2.40.10 GHSA-2wmj-46rj-qm2w
Go github.com/zitadel/zitadel >= 2.41.0, < 2.41.6 2.41.6 GHSA-2wmj-46rj-qm2w

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