# CVE-2021-35214: Session Management Vulnerability

> Attackers can maintain unauthorized access via active sessions after a user changes their password or email, requiring a patch to enforce session invalidation.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 12 Oct 2021
- **Updated:** 4 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-r8pm-g6v2-5wgx

## What is CVE-2021-35214?

CVE-2021-35214 is a medium-severity vulnerability in SolarWinds Pingdom, published on 12 Oct 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

The vulnerability in SolarWinds Pingdom can be described as a failure to invalidate user session upon password or email address change. When running multiple active sessions in separate browser windows, it was observed a password or email address change could be changed without terminating the user session. This issue has been resolved on September 13, 2021.

Weakness: CWE-613 (DEPRECATED: Insufficient Session Expiration)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-35214?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Solarwinds Pingdom.

## How do I fix CVE-2021-35214?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-35214 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2021-35214 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-35214 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2021-35214 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2021-35214 is a medium-severity vulnerability in SolarWinds Pingdom, published on 12 Oct 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-35214 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: SolarWinds Pingdom. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-35214/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-35214/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-35214
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-35214
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-35214

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-35214/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.