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CVE-2026-123551

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Description

OpenAM from 14.0.0 before 16.1.4 contains an information disclosure vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to read live session tokens from the notification WebSocket. Attackers can bypass the agent-only check through an unvalidated internal forward on legacy Liberty ID-FF endpoints, collecting iPlanetDirectoryPro tokens to hijack user and administrator sessions.

Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS score
10.0 (v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Received
Source identifier
Published
2026-11-08 02:16:46.603000
Last modified
2026-11-08 02:16:46.603000
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  "published": "2026-11-08T02:16:46.603",
  "lastModified": "2026-11-08T02:16:46.603",
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    }
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