CVE-2023-45718 HCL Sametime is impacted by a failure to invalidate sessions
Attackers can hijack user sessions because sensitive cookies remain valid after logout, allowing unauthorized access to HCL Sametime accounts.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2023-45718?
CVE-2023-45718 is a low-severity vulnerability in HCL Sametime, published on 9 Feb 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
Sametime is impacted by a failure to invalidate sessions. The application is setting sensitive cookie values in a persistent manner in Sametime Web clients. When this happens, cookie values can remain valid even after a user has closed out their session.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-45718?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Hcltech Sametime.
How do I fix CVE-2023-45718?
No fix has been published for CVE-2023-45718 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2023-45718 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-45718 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in HCL Sametime
- CVE-2021-27771 HCL Sametime is susceptible a file transfer service vulnerability
- CVE-2021-27772 HCL Sametime is vulnerable to an information disclosure
- CVE-2021-27770 HCL Sametime is vulnerable to arbitrary HTTP requests
- CVE-2022-42446 HCL Sametime 12.0 and 12.0FP1 anonymous users have directory lookup access
- CVE-2023-50349 HCL Sametime is impacted by a Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability
Sources
Also known as GHSA-3f8r-x482-8qpg.