# CVE-2024-55931: Token stored in session storage

> Attackers can steal authentication tokens from session storage if a user's session is compromised, potentially leading to account takeover.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 27 Jan 2025
- **Updated:** 24 Feb 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-vhqh-w8vh-h8h6

## What is CVE-2024-55931?

CVE-2024-55931 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Xerox Workplace Suite, published on 27 Jan 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Xerox Workplace Suite stores tokens in session storage, which may expose them to potential access if a user's session is compromised. 

The patch for this vulnerability will be included in a future release of Workplace Suite, and customers will be notified through an update to the security bulletin.

Weakness: CWE-922 (Insecure Storage of Sensitive Information)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-55931?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Xerox Workplace Suite.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-55931?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-55931 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-55931 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-55931 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Xerox Workplace Suite

- [CVE-2024-55926](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-55926/): Arbitrary file upload, deletion and read through header manipulation (high 7.6)
- [CVE-2024-55927](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-55927/): Flawed token generation implementation & Hard-coded key implementation (high 7.6)
- [CVE-2024-55925](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-55925/): API Security bypass through header manipulation (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2024-55930](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-55930/): Weak default folder permissions (medium 6.7)
- [CVE-2024-55928](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-55928/): Clear text secrets returned & Remote system secrets in clear text (medium 6.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-55931 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-55931 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Xerox Workplace Suite, published on 27 Jan 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-55931 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Xerox Workplace Suite. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-55931/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-55931/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-55931
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-55931
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-55931

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-55931/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.