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CVE-2023-25562: Failure to Invalidate Session on Logout in DataHub

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-02-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-613

Description

DataHub is an open-source metadata platform. In versions of DataHub prior to 0.8.45 Session cookies are only cleared on new sign-in events and not on logout events. Any authentication checks using the `AuthUtils.hasValidSessionCookie()` method could be bypassed by using a cookie from a logged out session, as a result any logged out session cookie may be accepted as valid and therefore lead to an authentication bypass to the system. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue. This vulnerability was discovered and reported by the GitHub Security lab and is tracked as GHSL-2022-083.

Affected products

• datahub-project datahub: before 0.8.45 — fixed in 0.8.45

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: datahub-project datahub 0.8.45. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/datahub-project/datahub/blob/aa146db611e3a4ca3aa17bb740783f789d4444d3/datahub-frontend/app/auth/AuthUtils.java#L78
• https://github.com/datahub-project/datahub/security/advisories/GHSA-3974-hxjh-m3jj
• https://github.com/datahub-project/datahub/blob/aa146db611e3a4ca3aa17bb740783f789d4444d3/datahub-frontend/app/auth/AuthUtils.java#L78
• https://github.com/datahub-project/datahub/security/advisories/GHSA-3974-hxjh-m3jj

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