title: ZITADEL vulnerable account takeover via malicious host header injection
description: ZITADEL is an identity infrastructure system. ZITADEL uses the notification triggering requests Forwarded or X-Forwarded-Host header to build the button link sent in emails for confirming a password reset with the emailed code. If this header is overwritten and a user clicks the link to a malicious site in the email, the secret code can be retrieved and used to reset the users password and take over his account. Accounts with MFA or Passwordless enabled can not be taken over by this attack. This issue has been patched in versions 2.41.6, 2.40.10 and 2.39.9.
problem types: CWE-640: Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password
affected:
{
vendor: zitadel
product: zitadel
versions:
version: >= 2.39.0, < 2.39.9, status: affected
version: >= 2.40.0, < 2.40.10, status: affected
version: >= 2.41.0, < 2.41.6, status: affected
}
metrics:
cvssV3_1: [
attackComplexity: LOW
attackVector: NETWORK
availabilityImpact: NONE
baseScore: 8.1
baseSeverity: HIGH
confidentialityImpact: HIGH
integrityImpact: HIGH
privilegesRequired: NONE
scope: UNCHANGED
userInteraction: REQUIRED
vectorString: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
version: 3.1
]