SB2021080801 - Insufficient session expiration in Eclipse Jetty
Published: August 8, 2021
Security Bulletin ID
SB2021080801
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Physical access
Highest impact
Data manipulation
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Insufficient Session Expiration (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-34428)
The vulnerability allows an attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient session expiration issue. If an exception is thrown from the SessionListener#sessionDestroyed() method, then the session ID is not invalidated in the session ID manager. On deployments with clustered sessions and multiple contexts this can result in a session not being invalidated.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.