CVE-2025-22386
Published: 04 January 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-22386 is a high-severity Insufficient Session Expiration (CWE-613) vulnerability in Optimizely Configured Commerce. Its CVSS base score is 7.3 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Web Session Cookie (T1550.004); ranked in the top 49.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 AC-12 (Session Termination) and AU-14 (Session Audit).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2025-22386 is a session management vulnerability discovered in Optimizely Configured Commerce versions prior to 5.2.2408, specifically impacting the Commerce B2B application's storefront. The issue involves insufficient session expiration (CWE-613), where session tokens tied to logged-out sessions remain active and usable beyond their intended lifespan. It carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N), indicating medium-high severity due to network accessibility and potential for significant data exposure or manipulation.
The vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker with low privileges (PR:L) over the network (AV:N) with low attack complexity (AC:L), though it requires user interaction (UI:R). By obtaining a session token from a logged-out session—potentially through prior access or interception—the attacker can reuse it to impersonate the user, achieving high impacts on confidentiality (C:H) and integrity (I:H) without affecting availability (A:N). This enables unauthorized access to or modification of sensitive storefront data.
Optimizely has published security advisory COM-2024-04 at https://support.optimizely.com/hc/en-us/articles/32695284701069-Configured-Commerce-Security-Advisory-COM-2024-04, which details the vulnerability and mitigation steps. Practitioners should upgrade to Optimizely Configured Commerce 5.2.2408 or later to address the session longevity issue.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-2767
Vulnerability details
An issue was discovered in Optimizely Configured Commerce before 5.2.2408. A medium-severity session issue exists in the Commerce B2B application, affecting the longevity of active sessions in the storefront. This allows session tokens tied to logged-out sessions to still be…
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active and usable.
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Related Threats
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Why these techniques?
Insufficient session expiration allows reuse of valid session tokens (web cookies) to impersonate users and bypass authentication controls.
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Mitigating Controls
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Directly requires automatic termination of user sessions upon logout or organization-defined inactivity periods, preventing reuse of tokens from logged-out sessions.
Mandates management of authenticators including periodic refresh, revocation, and protection, addressing prolonged validity of session tokens post-logout.
Provides audit capability for session events, enabling detection of unauthorized access or activity using improperly persistent session tokens.