Unauthorized password reset via reusable reset tokens
Published Aug 9, 2024 · Updated Mar 13, 2025
Improper reset-token invalidation in Apache Answer 1.3.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to reuse a captured link to reset a password. VerifyCode reads the token's cached content without deleting the cache entry, so the same code remains accepted until its ten-minute expiry. Possession of a still-valid reset link is required; replay lets the holder change the associated account password after the link's first use.
Summary
What happened
Improper reset-token invalidation in Apache Answer 1.3.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to reuse a captured link to reset a password. VerifyCode reads the token's cached content without deleting the cache entry, so the same code remains accepted until its ten-minute expiry. Possession of a still-valid reset link is required; replay lets the holder change the associated account password after the link's first use.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-41888
- Published
- Aug 9, 2024
- Updated
- Mar 13, 2025
- Vendor
- The Apache Software Foundation
- Product
- Apache Answer
- Classifications
- CWE-772
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Aug 9, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Mar 13, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <=1.3.5
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