CVE-2022-36106 Missing check for expiration time of password reset token in TYPO3

What is CVE-2022-36106?

CVE-2022-36106 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Typo3 Typo3, published on 13 Sep 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

TYPO3 is an open source PHP based web content management system released under the GNU GPL. It has been discovered that the expiration time of a password reset link for TYPO3 backend users has never been evaluated. As a result, a password reset link could be used to perform a password reset even if the default expiry time of two hours has been exceeded. Update to TYPO3 version 10.4.32 or 11.5.16 that fix the problem. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

Weakness: CWE-287

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-36106?

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

Products include Typo3 Typo3.

How do I fix CVE-2022-36106?

Upgrade typo3/cms to a fixed version for your release line: 10.4.32 or 11.5.16.

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

Is CVE-2022-36106 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-36106 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• 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
• How this page is made

Also known as BIT-typo3-2022-36106, GHSA-5959-4x58-r8c2.