Medium severity · published Oct 10, 2023
CVE-2023-44399
ZITADEL provides identity infrastructure
5.3
CVSS
0.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
ZITADEL provides identity infrastructure. In versions 2.37.2 and prior, ZITADEL administrators can enable a setting called "Ignoring unknown usernames" which helps mitigate attacks that try to guess/enumerate usernames. While this settings was properly working during the authentication process it did not work correctly on the password reset flow. This meant that even if this feature was active that an attacker could use the password reset function to verify if an account exist within ZITADEL. This bug has been patched in versions 2.37.3 and 2.38.0. No known workarounds are available.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.7% · higher than 52% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
ZI
Zitadel · Zitadel
through 2.37.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-44399
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-44399
Release Notes
https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/releases/tag/v2.37.3
Release Notes
https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/releases/tag/v2.38.0
Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/security/advisories/GHSA-v683-rcxx-vpff
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