eduMFA Passkeys: missing expiration flag may allow replay attacks and reuse of old challenges

Description

Impact

In eduMFA < 2.9.1 userless Passkey/WebAuthn challenges might be replayed and do not expire

Patches

Fixed in eduMFA >= 2.9.1 by adding validity information to the userless challenges.

Workarounds

No known workarounds besides disabling userless login altogether.

Basic information

Type
reviewed
Severity
high
Advisory on GitHub
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Repository advisory
Open repository advisory ↗
Source code
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Published (advisory)
2026-05-18 15:37:00 UTC
Updated
2026-05-18 15:37:01 UTC
GitHub reviewed
2026-05-18 15:37:00 UTC

CVSS Scores

Base score Version Severity Vector
8.7 4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and stable.
Attack requirements (AT:N)
No additional preconditions are required beyond normal reachability.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No privileges are required.
User interaction (UI:N)
No user interaction is required.
Vulnerable system confidentiality impact (VC:N)
No confidentiality impact on the vulnerable system.
Vulnerable system integrity impact (VI:H)
High integrity impact on the vulnerable system.
Vulnerable system availability impact (VA:N)
No availability impact on the vulnerable system.
Subsequent system confidentiality impact (SC:N)
No confidentiality impact on subsequent systems.
Subsequent system integrity impact (SI:N)
No integrity impact on subsequent systems.
Subsequent system availability impact (SA:N)
No availability impact on subsequent systems.

Identifiers

Type Value
GHSA GHSA-j5rm-v3vh-vx94 ↗

CWEs

CWE id Name
CWE-287 Improper Authentication
CWE-613 Insufficient Session Expiration

Affected packages (1)

Vulnerable version ranges and first patched releases as published by GitHub.

Ecosystem Package Vulnerable range First patched Vulnerable functions
pip edumfa < 2.9.1 2.9.1

References

cvelogic Threat Intelligence