GHSA-cfjq-28r2-4jv5

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Source
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cfjq-28r2-4jv5
Import Source
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2025/10/GHSA-cfjq-28r2-4jv5/GHSA-cfjq-28r2-4jv5.json
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https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-cfjq-28r2-4jv5
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Published
2025-10-29T22:21:27Z
Modified
2025-11-05T22:14:13Z
Severity
  • 8.7 (High) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
Zitadel May Bypass Second Authentication Factor
Details

Summary

A vulnerability in Zitadel's token verification prematurely marked sessions as authenticated when only one factor was verified.

Impact

Zitadel provides an API for managing sessions, enabling custom login experiences in a dedicated UI or direct integration into applications. Session Tokens are issued for active sessions, which can be used as Bearer tokens to call the Zitadel API.

Starting from 2.55.0 (see other affected versions below), Zitadel only required multi factor authentication in case the login policy has either enabled requireMFA or requireMFAForLocalUsers. If a user has set up MFA without this requirement, Zitadel would consider single factor auhtenticated sessions as valid as well and not require multiple factors.

Bypassing second authentication factors weakens multifactor authentication and enables attackers to bypass the more secure factor. An attacker can target the TOTP code alone, only six digits, bypassing password verification entirely and potentially compromising accounts with 2FA enabled.

Affected Versions

Systems using the session API (v2 beta and v2) directly or via the new login UI in the following versions are affected: - 4.x: 4.0.0 to 4.5.0 (including RC versions) - 3.x: 3.0.0 to 3.4.2 (including RC versions) - 2.x: v2.53.6 to v2.53.9, v2.54.3 to v2.54.10, 2.55.0 to 2.71.17

Patches

The vulnerability has been addressed in the latest releases. The patch resolves the issue by requiring a configured second factor regardless of the login policies requireMFA or requireMFAForLocalUsers configuration.

4.x: Upgrade to >=4.6.0 3.x: Update to >=3.4.3 2.x: Update to >=2.71.18

Workarounds

The recommended solution is to update Zitadel to a patched version.

Questions

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, please email us at security@zitadel.com

Credits

This vulnerability was found by zentrust partners GmbH during a scheduled penetration test. Thank you to the analysts Martin Tschirsich, Joud Zakharia, Christopher Baumann. The full report will be made public after the complete review.

Database specific 
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    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-287",
        "CWE-308"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2025-10-29T22:21:27Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2025-10-29T19:15:39Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
}
References

Affected packages

Go

github.com/zitadel/zitadel/v2

Package

Name
github.com/zitadel/zitadel/v2
View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl
pkg:golang/github.com/zitadel/zitadel/v2

Affected ranges

Type
SEMVER
Events
Introduced
2.53.6
Last affected
2.53.9

github.com/zitadel/zitadel/v2

Package

Name
github.com/zitadel/zitadel/v2
View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl
pkg:golang/github.com/zitadel/zitadel/v2

Affected ranges

Type
SEMVER
Events
Introduced
2.54.3
Last affected
2.54.10

github.com/zitadel/zitadel/v2

Package

Name
github.com/zitadel/zitadel/v2
View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl
pkg:golang/github.com/zitadel/zitadel/v2

Affected ranges

Type
SEMVER
Events
Introduced
2.55.0
Fixed
2.71.18

Database specific

last_known_affected_version_range

"<= 2.71.17"

github.com/zitadel/zitadel

Package

Name
github.com/zitadel/zitadel
View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl
pkg:golang/github.com/zitadel/zitadel

Affected ranges

Type
SEMVER
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.80.0-v2.20.0.20251029091250-b284f8474eed