CVE-2023-37504: An insufficient session expiration vulnerability affects HCL Compass

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2023-10-19 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-613

Description

HCL Compass is vulnerable to failure to invalidate sessions. The application does not invalidate authenticated sessions when the log out functionality is called. If the session identifier can be discovered, it could be replayed to the application and used to impersonate the user.

Affected products

HCL Software HCL Compass: from 2.0.0 through 2.0.3; from 2.2.0 before 2.2.3; 2.1.0 — fixed in 2.2.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: HCL Software HCL Compass 2.2.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://support.hcltechsw.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0107511
https://support.hcltechsw.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0107511

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