CVE-2023-40174
Published: 18 August 2023
Summary
CVE-2023-40174 is a medium-severity Insufficient Session Expiration (CWE-613) vulnerability in Fobybus Social-Media-Skeleton. Its CVSS base score is 6.8 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 25.5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-44779
Vulnerability details
Social media skeleton is an uncompleted/framework social media project implemented using a php, css ,javascript and html. Insufficient session expiration is a web application security vulnerability that occurs when a web application does not properly manage the lifecycle of a…
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user's session. Social media skeleton releases prior to 1.0.5 did not properly limit manage user session lifecycles. This issue has been addressed in version 1.0.5 and users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
- 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.