🛡️ CVE-2023-1788 — firefly-iii

🔴 CVSS 9.8 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-613 NVD
9.8
CVSS Score
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Description

Firefly III insufficiently expires sessions

Firefly III prior to 6.0.0 insufficiently expires sessions upon close.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-1788 is classified as CWE-613: Insufficient Session Expiration. Sessions stay valid longer than they should, so an old identifier still grants access.

Affected software

CVE-2023-1788 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • firefly-iii
  • grumpydictator/firefly-iii (fixed in 6.0.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 5 April 2023 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com
huntr.dev
github.com
huntr.dev

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-613
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-04-05
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
firefly-iii
grumpydictator/firefly-iii 6.0.0

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