CVE-2023-49097 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2023-49097

ZITADEL vulnerable account takeover via malicious host header injection

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

zitadel
Vulnerable Versions:
>= 2.39.0, < 2.39.9, >= 2.40.0, < 2.40.10, >= 2.41.0, < 2.41.6

Timeline

Official Publish: November 30th, 2023
Last Modified: November 27th, 2024
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-640

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.