Apostrophe CMS Insufficient Session Expiration vulnerability

Description

Apostrophe CMS versions between 2.63.0 to 3.3.1 affected by an insufficient session expiration vulnerability, which allows unauthenticated remote attackers to hijack recently logged-in users’ sessions. As a mitigation for older releases the user account in question can be archived (3.x) or moved to the trash (2.

Recommendation

Update the apostrophe package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): >= 2.63.0, < 3.4.0
• Patched version(s): 3.4.0

References

• GHSA-9j9m-8wjc-ff96
• CVE-2021-25979
• CWE-613
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6
• OWASP 2021-A7

Related Issues

• Strapi is vulnerable to Insufficient Session Expiration - CVE-2025-3930
• Command Injection Vulnerability in systeminformation - CVE-2021-21388
• Cross-site Scripting in apostrophe - CVE-2021-25978
• string-kit Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity vulnerability - CVE-2021-4299

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npm

apostrophe