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kanboard -- Insufficient session invalidation

Affected packages
kanboard < 1.2.43

Details

VuXML ID 94b2d58a-c1e9-11ef-aa3f-dcfe074bd614
Discovery 2024-12-19
Entry 2024-12-24

security-advisories@github.com reports:

Kanboard is project management software that focuses on the Kanban methodology. In affected versions sessions are still usable even though their lifetime has exceeded. Kanboard implements a cutom session handler (`app/Core/Session/SessionHandler.php`), to store the session data in a database. Therefore, when a `session_id` is given, kanboard queries the data from the `sessions` sql table. At this point, it does not correctly verify, if a given `session_id` has already exceeded its lifetime (`expires_at`). Thus, a session which's lifetime is already `> time()`, is still queried from the database and hence a valid login. The implemented **SessionHandlerInterface::gc** function, that does remove invalid sessions, is called only **with a certain probability** (_Cleans up expired sessions. Called by `session_start()`, based on `session.gc_divisor`, `session.gc_probability` and `session.gc_maxlifetime` settings_) accordingly to the php documentation. In the official Kanboard docker image these values default to: session.gc_probability=1, session.gc_divisor=1000. Thus, an expired session is only terminated with probability 1/1000. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

References

CVE Name CVE-2024-55603
URL https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-55603