CVE-2022-23722 PingFederate Password Reset via Authentication API Mishandling
An attacker can reset another user's password via the Authentication API if specific multi-factor authentication policies are configured, leading to account takeover.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2022-23722?
CVE-2022-23722 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in PingFederate, published on 2 May 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
When a password reset mechanism is configured to use the Authentication API with an Authentication Policy, email One-Time Password, PingID or SMS authentication, an existing user can reset another existing user’s password.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-23722?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Pingidentity Pingfederate.
How do I fix CVE-2022-23722?
No fix has been published for CVE-2022-23722 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.
Is CVE-2022-23722 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-23722 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-6wxq-f89h-xgm7.