CVE-2022-31050 Insufficient Session Expiration in TYPO3 Admin Tool

What is CVE-2022-31050?

CVE-2022-31050 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Typo3 Typo3, published on 14 Jun 2022. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

TYPO3 is an open source web content management system. Prior to versions 9.5.34 ELTS, 10.4.29, and 11.5.11, Admin Tool sessions initiated via the TYPO3 backend user interface had not been revoked even if the corresponding user account was degraded to lower permissions or disabled completely. This way, sessions in the admin tool theoretically could have been prolonged without any limit. TYPO3 versions 9.5.34 ELTS, 10.4.29, and 11.5.11 contain a fix for the problem.

Weakness: CWE-613

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-31050?

11 open source packages ship an affected version, including typo3/cms-core, typo3 and typo3/cms. It affects 1 product.

Products include Typo3 Typo3.

How do I fix CVE-2022-31050?

Upgrade typo3/cms-core to a fixed version for your release line: 10.4.29, 11.5.11 or 9.5.35.

Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.

Is CVE-2022-31050 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-31050 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2009-0258 Indexed Search Engine for TYPO3 Command Execution via Metacharacter Injection Critical 10.0
• CVE-2011-3583 Typo3 SQL injection due to faulty prepared statements Critical 9.8
• CVE-2011-4628 Typo3 Authentication Bypass Critical 9.8
• CVE-2023-24814 Persisted Cross-Site Scripting in Frontend Rendering in typo3 High 8.8
• CVE-2021-41113 Cross-Site-Request-Forgery in Backend URI Handling in Typo3 High 8.8

All Typo3 Typo3 vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BIT-typo3-2022-31050, GHSA-wwjw-r3gj-39fq.