Admin account access via renewable logged-out JWTs
Published Oct 16, 2025 · Updated Oct 16, 2025
Insufficient session expiration in Strapi before 5.24.1 allows remote attackers with a stolen admin JWT to retain admin access. The admin authentication flow does not invalidate JWTs after logout or account deactivation, and /admin/renew-token accepts near-expiration tokens for repeated renewal. Exploitation requires theft or interception of an admin token; the token otherwise lasts 30 days by default and can authorize reading or changing admin-accessible data.
Summary
What happened
Insufficient session expiration in Strapi before 5.24.1 allows remote attackers with a stolen admin JWT to retain admin access. The admin authentication flow does not invalidate JWTs after logout or account deactivation, and /admin/renew-token accepts near-expiration tokens for repeated renewal. Exploitation requires theft or interception of an admin token; the token otherwise lasts 30 days by default and can authorize reading or changing admin-accessible data.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-3930
- Published
- Oct 16, 2025
- Updated
- Oct 16, 2025
- Vendor
- Strapi
- Product
- Strapi
- Classifications
- CWE-613, T1078
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Oct 16, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Oct 16, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <5.24.1
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