Account takeover via email-based account linking
Published Mar 16, 2025 · Updated Mar 17, 2025
Account takeover in TYPO3 OpenID Connect Authentication before 4.0.0 allows remote attackers to seize a frontend user account. AuthenticationService.php matches the identity provider's email claim against the local username field instead of linking solely by the provider subject identifier. Exploitation requires advance knowledge of the victim's email address, prior registration of that address as a public frontend username, and the victim's first OIDC login through a provider that returns the email claim.
Summary
What happened
Account takeover in TYPO3 OpenID Connect Authentication before 4.0.0 allows remote attackers to seize a frontend user account. AuthenticationService.php matches the identity provider's email claim against the local username field instead of linking solely by the provider subject identifier. Exploitation requires advance knowledge of the victim's email address, prior registration of that address as a public frontend username, and the victim's first OIDC login through a provider that returns the email claim.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-24856
- Published
- Mar 16, 2025
- Updated
- Mar 17, 2025
- Vendor
- in2code GmbH
- Product
- OpenID Connect Authentication
- Classifications
- CWE-639, CWE-288, CWE-348, T1078
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Mar 16, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Mar 17, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <4.0.0
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