CVE-2021-35342
Published: 27 August 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-35342 is a high-severity Insufficient Session Expiration (CWE-613) vulnerability in Northern.Tech Useradm. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).
Operationally, ranked at the 43.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-21985
Vulnerability details
The useradm service 1.14.0 (in Northern.tech Mender Enterprise 2.7.x before 2.7.1) and 1.13.0 (in Northern.tech Mender Enterprise 2.6.x before 2.6.1) allows users to access the system with their JWT token after logout, because of missing invalidation (if the JWT verification…
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cache is enabled).
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Locks the device (typically after inactivity) until re-authentication, addressing insufficient session expiration by preventing indefinite access.
Automatically terminating sessions after a defined period directly enforces session expiration, preventing indefinite session lifetimes that attackers can exploit.
Re-authentication after inactivity or time-based triggers prevents indefinite use of potentially hijacked or stale sessions.
Terminating sessions and network connections upon completion prevents insufficient session expiration.
Directly enforces termination of network sessions after inactivity or end-of-session, preventing indefinite session lifetime.
Consistent clocks across systems allow session expiration and timeout enforcement to function as intended in distributed environments.
When the non-persistent artifact is a session or connection, mandatory termination implements the missing expiration that CWE-613 describes.
Timed refresh of session-related information or on-demand generation plus deletion implements proper session expiration.