CVE-2023-49097

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    CVE-2023-49097

    Published: 30 Nov 2023Last Modified: 28 Oct 2026

    Summary: ZITADEL vulnerable account takeover via malicious host header injection

    Details: ZITADEL is an identity infrastructure system. ZITADEL uses the notification triggering requests Forwarded or X-Forwarded-Host header to build the button link sent in emails for confirming a password reset with the emailed code. If this header is overwritten and a user clicks the link to a malicious site in the email, the secret code can be retrieved and used to reset the users password and take over his account. Accounts with MFA or Passwordless enabled can not be taken over by this attack. This issue has been patched in versions 2.41.6, 2.40.10 and 2.39.9.

    References: https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/49xxx/CVE-2023-49097.json, https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/security/advisories/GHSA-2wmj-46rj-qm2w, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-49097

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- ba33a2ee8a07389f9dcdda09f82ca2047fe6f55d
    Fixed -b5d7aee72e5ec0996447e9b7306e1134a8874b16

    Affected versions

    v2.39.8
    v2.39.7
    v2.39.6
    v2.39.5
    v2.39.4
    v2.39.3
    v2.39.2
    v2.39.1
    v2.39.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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