Security readout for executives and security teams
Plain-English summary
Changing a Flowintel password does not end sessions that are already signed in. Anyone holding a stolen or previously obtained session can retain access until that session expires naturally, undermining password resets as an account-recovery control.
Executive priority
Treat as an urgent identity-control weakness, especially where account compromise is suspected. Prioritize inventory, vendor-fix confirmation, and session revocation. Password changes alone should not be considered sufficient containment until remediation is verified.
Technical view
The supplied record says Flowintel versions 3.3.0 and later fail to revoke active authenticated sessions after password changes. The upstream fix calls _invalidate_user_sessions(user.id) after database updates in both user and administrator edit paths. No fixed release version is identified.
Likely exposure
Exposure requires an attacker to already possess a valid session. Internet-reachable Flowintel deployments may face greater session-theft risk, but the sources do not identify deployment prevalence, session lifetime, or a definitive fixed-version boundary.
Exploitation context
No active exploitation is established: this CVE is not listed as KEV in the supplied bundle, and no cited source reports exploitation. Abuse depends on prior acquisition of a valid session, which remains usable after the victim changes their password.
Researcher notes
The cited weaknesses are CWE-384 and CWE-613. CVSS 4.0 is 9.1, with high confidentiality and integrity impact but no availability impact. Evidence supports the defective behavior and code-level correction; affected-version metadata is inconsistent, and no fixed release number, exploitation report, or session-duration detail is supplied.
Mitigation direction
- Identify Flowintel deployments running version 3.3.0 or later.
- Check vendor guidance for a release containing commit e46e075b8f28212800fc57ead0a7f9a2921bfff0.
- Apply the vendor-provided fixed release when its version is confirmed.
- Invalidate existing sessions for potentially compromised accounts where operational controls allow.
- Review session lifetimes and reduce excessive durations according to vendor-supported settings.
Validation and detection
- Confirm the deployed Flowintel version and build provenance.
- Verify whether the deployed code contains the cited session-invalidation change.
- In an authorized test account, change the password and confirm prior sessions become invalid.
- Test both self-service and administrator-initiated password-change paths.
- Review authentication logs for sessions persisting after password changes.
Public sources used
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Open ATT&CK lookup- Severity
- Critical
- CVSS
- 9.1 (4.0)
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N——CIRCLVulnerability scoring details
Base CVSS 4.0 score
9.1CriticalVector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
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Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- https://github.com/flowintel/flowintel/commit/e46e075b8f28212800fc57ead0a7f9a2921bfff0.patchCVE reference, CIRCL · patch
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Session Fixation
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DEPRECATED: Insufficient Session Expiration
DEPRECATED: Insufficient Session Expiration represents a recurring weakness pattern that can create exploitable paths when design, validation, or implementation controls are missing.