Security readout for executives and security teams
Plain-English summary
AVideo may accept expired password-recovery tokens indefinitely. Anyone who obtains an old token could reset its account’s password and take control without further user interaction. Compromised privileged accounts could expose content, user data, and service administration.
Executive priority
Treat as an urgent identity-control issue. Promptly determine whether AVideo is deployed and externally reachable, then follow vendor remediation guidance. Prioritize installations containing sensitive data or privileged administrative accounts.
Technical view
The flaw is missing expiration validation in userRecoverPassSave.json.php. It is classified as CWE-613 and scored CVSS 3.1 9.8 because exploitation is remote, low complexity, and may fully affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. An attacker must first possess a recovery token.
Likely exposure
Deployments using AVideo’s affected password-recovery flow may be exposed, particularly when publicly reachable. The supplied affected-version data lists version “0” while declaring other versions unaffected, so the precise vulnerable release range cannot be established from this bundle.
Exploitation context
The bundle does not establish active exploitation, and the CVE is not listed as KEV. Exploitation nevertheless requires no authenticated account or user interaction after an attacker obtains a recovery token. How tokens might be acquired is not documented here.
Researcher notes
The vulnerable handler is identified as userRecoverPassSave.json.php, with expiration enforcement absent from the recovery-token save path. CWE-613 fits insufficient session expiration. The supplied version metadata is ambiguous, so researchers should avoid asserting a broader affected range without vendor confirmation.
Mitigation direction
- Check the vendor advisory immediately for confirmed affected and fixed versions.
- Apply the vendor-supported fixed release when identified.
- Invalidate existing recovery tokens where supported, especially for privileged accounts.
- Temporarily restrict password-recovery access if exposure cannot be promptly resolved.
- Monitor password resets and subsequent account activity for anomalies.
Validation and detection
- Inventory all AVideo deployments and record their exact versions.
- Compare deployed versions with the vendor advisory’s confirmed affected range.
- Verify through authorized testing that expired recovery tokens are rejected.
- Review logs for unexpected password resets and unfamiliar post-reset access.
- Confirm privileged accounts have no outstanding recovery tokens where observable.
Public sources used
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- Critical
- CVSS
- 9.8 (3.1)
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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CVSS vector scores
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H3.95.9VulnCheckCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N——VulnCheckVulnerability scoring details
Base CVSS 4.0 score
9.3CriticalVector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Base CVSS 3.1 score
9.8CriticalVector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- GitHub Security Advisory (GHSA-j9p7-hm85-9v77)CVE reference, VulnCheck · vendor-advisory
- VulnCheck Advisory: WWBN AVideo Password Recovery Token Expiration BypassCVE reference, VulnCheck · third-party-advisory
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Insufficient Session Expiration
Insufficient Session Expiration represents a recurring weakness pattern that can create exploitable paths when design, validation, or implementation controls are missing.