CVE-2023-40174 Insufficient Session Expiration in fobybus/social-media-skeleton

Medium 6.8 Published 18 Aug 2023 Updated 3 Oct 2024

Attackers can hijack user accounts due to insufficient session expiration in the social media skeleton web application.

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-2023-40174?

CVE-2023-40174 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in fobybus social-media-skeleton, published on 18 Aug 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Social media skeleton is an uncompleted/framework social media project implemented using a php, css ,javascript and html. Insufficient session expiration is a web application security vulnerability that occurs when a web application does not properly manage the lifecycle of a user's session. Social media skeleton releases prior to 1.0.5 did not properly limit manage user session lifecycles. This issue has been addressed in version 1.0.5 and users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Weakness: CWE-613

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-40174?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Fobybus Social-Media-Skeleton.

How do I fix CVE-2023-40174?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-40174 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-2023-40174 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-40174 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-cr5c-ggwq-g4hq.