CVE-2021-40329 The Authentication API in Ping Identity PingFederate before 10.3 mishandles certain aspects of external password management.
Critical 9.8
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2021-40329 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2021-40329 is a critical vulnerability in PingFederate, published on 27 Sep 2021.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-40329 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: PingFederate. 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-2021-40329/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-40329/index.md)
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2021-40329?
CVE-2021-40329 is a critical vulnerability in PingFederate, published on 27 Sep 2021.
Official description
The Authentication API in Ping Identity PingFederate before 10.3 mishandles certain aspects of external password management.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-40329?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Pingidentity Pingfederate.
How do I fix CVE-2021-40329?
No fix has been published for CVE-2021-40329 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2021-40329 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-40329 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in PingFederate
- CVE-2023-40545 PingFederate OAuth client_secret_jwt Authentication Bypass
- CVE-2023-37283 Authentication Bypass via HTML Form & Identifier First Adapter
- CVE-2022-40722 Misconfiguration of RSA padding for offline MFA in the PingID Adapter for PingFederate.
- CVE-2023-39219 Admin Console Denial of Service via Java class enumeration
- CVE-2021-41770 XML external entity in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-p92v-w2pj-5rpm.