CVE-2021-42000 Business logic in PingFederate
Attackers can reset other users' passwords if parallel reset flows are enabled in authentication policies, leading to account takeover.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2021-42000?
CVE-2021-42000 is a medium-severity vulnerability in PingFederate, published on 10 Feb 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
When a password reset or password change flow with an authentication policy is configured and the adapter in the reset or change policy supports multiple parallel reset flows, an existing user can reset another existing users password.
Weakness: CWE-285
Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-42000?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Pingidentity Pingfederate.
How do I fix CVE-2021-42000?
No fix has been published for CVE-2021-42000 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2021-42000 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-42000 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in PingFederate
- CVE-2021-40329 The Authentication API in Ping Identity PingFederate before 10.3 mishandles certain aspects of external password management.
- 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
Sources
Also known as GHSA-f9mp-88cg-ffch.