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

- Severity: CVSS 6.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.8.45
- Published: 2023-02-10 · Updated: 2025-03-10

## Affected

- datahub-project datahub: fixed in 0.8.45

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on datahub-project datahub, upgrade to a fixed version (0.8.45) per the references below.
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## References

- 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

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