Cyber Posture

CVE-2024-13279

Critical

Published: 09 January 2025

Published
09 January 2025
Modified
02 September 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0018 39.8th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Description

Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.

Security Summary

CVE-2024-13279 is a session fixation vulnerability in the Drupal Two-factor Authentication (TFA) module. This issue affects all versions of the TFA module from 0.0.0 before 1.8.0 and is classified under CWE-384 (Session Fixation).

The vulnerability has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), indicating it is exploitable remotely over the network by unauthenticated attackers with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. Successful exploitation allows attackers to fix a session ID, potentially hijacking authenticated sessions and achieving high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The Drupal security advisory SA-CONTRIB-2024-043 at https://www.drupal.org/sa-contrib-2024-043 provides details on mitigation, including available patches.

Details

CWE(s)
CWE-384

Affected Products

two-factor authentication project
two-factor authentication
≤ 8.x-1.8

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
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Why these techniques?

Session fixation vulnerability in Drupal TFA module enables exploitation of a public-facing web application to bypass access controls via improper session migration during multi-factor authentication.

References