Session exposure via incomplete platform logout
Published Jan 5, 2023 · Updated Apr 10, 2025
Broken access control in IBM Robotic Process Automation before 21.0.3.1 allows physically proximate attackers to retain session access. The logout flow fails to redirect the user to the platform logout screen, leaving the authenticated session incompletely terminated. Exploitation requires a low-privileged user, user interaction, and physical access, and the vendor-documented impact is limited to session confidentiality.
Summary
What happened
Broken access control in IBM Robotic Process Automation before 21.0.3.1 allows physically proximate attackers to retain session access. The logout flow fails to redirect the user to the platform logout screen, leaving the authenticated session incompletely terminated. Exploitation requires a low-privileged user, user interaction, and physical access, and the vendor-documented impact is limited to session confidentiality.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-43844
- Published
- Jan 5, 2023
- Updated
- Apr 10, 2025
- Vendor
- IBM
- Product
- IBM Robotic Process Automation
- Classifications
- CWE-613, T1539
- Attack vector
- physical
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jan 5, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 10, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=20.12 <21.0.3
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