Impact
ZITADEL uses HTML for emails and renders certain information such as usernames dynamically. That information can be entered by users or administrators. Due to a missing output sanitization, these emails could include malicious code. This may potentially lead to a threat where an attacker, without privileges, could send out altered notifications that are part of the registration processes. An attacker could create a malicious link, where the injected code would be rendered as part of the email.
During investigation of this issue a related issue was found and mitigated, where on the user's detail page the username was not sanitized and would also render HTML, giving an attacker the same vulnerability.
While it was possible to inject HTML including javascript, the execution of such scripts would be prevented by most email clients and the Content Security Policy in Console UI.
Patches
2.x versions are fixed on >= 2.58.1 2.57.x versions are fixed on >= 2.57.1 2.56.x versions are fixed on >= 2.56.2 2.55.x versions are fixed on >= 2.55.5 2.54.x versions are fixed on >= 2.54.8 2.53.x versions are fixed on >= 2.53.9 2.52.x versions are fixed on >= 2.52.9
Workarounds
There is no workaround since a patch is already available.
Questions
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, please email us at security@zitadel.com
Credits
Thanks to Sushmita Poudel and David Underwood for reporting this.
Impact
ZITADEL administrators can enable a setting called "Ignoring unknown usernames" which helps mitigate attacks that try to guess/enumerate usernames. If enabled, ZITADEL will show the password prompt even if the user doesn't exist and report "Username or Password invalid". Due to a implementation change to prevent deadlocks calling the database, the flag would not be correctly respected in all cases and an attacker would gain information if an account exist within ZITADEL, since the error message shows "object not found" instead of the generic error message.
Patches
2.x versions are fixed on >= 2.58.1 2.57.x versions are fixed on >= 2.57.1 2.56.x versions are fixed on >= 2.56.2 2.55.x versions are fixed on >= 2.55.5 2.54.x versions are fixed on >= 2.54.8 2.53.x versions are fixed on >= 2.53.9
ZITADEL recommends upgrading to the latest versions available in due course.
Workarounds
There is no workaround since a patch is already available.
Questions
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, please email us at security@zitadel.com
Impact
ZITADEL provides users the ability to list all user sessions of the current user agent (browser) by API and in the Console UI.
Due to a missing check, user sessions without that information (e.g. when created though the session service) were incorrectly listed exposing potentially other user's sessions.
Note that the Login UI was never affected and there was no possibility to take over such a session.
Patches
2.x versions are fixed on >= 2.55.1 2.54.x versions are fixed on >= 2.54.5 2.53.x versions are fixed on >= 2.53.8
ZITADEL recommends upgrading to the latest versions available in due course.
Workarounds
There is no workaround since a patch is already available.
References
- https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/pull/8231 - https://discord.com/channels/927474939156643850/1254096852937347153 - https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel/issues/8213
Questions If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, please email us at security@zitadel.com
Credits Thanks to @cybertransformer, @Avolicious, @AmirhoseinBrz and @srividyaj for finding and reporting the vulnerability.