Open Access Management (OpenAM) is an access management solution. Prior to 16.1.1, SessionRequestHandler in the session management endpoint does not enforce ownership or privilege checks when a low-privileged authenticated user queries session information in deployments using stateful session storage. A requester who knows a target identity identifier can retrieve another user's active session credentials, including credentials for a more privileged account, and use them to hijack that session. This issue is fixed in version 16.1.1.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-vvhj-w2jq-263q OpenAM Authenticated Privilege Escalation via Raw Token Disclosure Session RPC
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History

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:30:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:30:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Openidentityplatform
Openidentityplatform openam
Vendors & Products Openidentityplatform
Openidentityplatform openam

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0000

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Description Open Access Management (OpenAM) is an access management solution. Prior to 16.1.1, SessionRequestHandler in the session management endpoint does not enforce ownership or privilege checks when a low-privileged authenticated user queries session information in deployments using stateful session storage. A requester who knows a target identity identifier can retrieve another user's active session credentials, including credentials for a more privileged account, and use them to hijack that session. This issue is fixed in version 16.1.1.
Title OpenAM Authenticated Privilege Escalation via Raw Token Disclosure Session RPC
Weaknesses CWE-200
CWE-285
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-17T14:03:36.527Z

Reserved: 2026-05-08T18:07:27.341Z

Link: CVE-2026-45048

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-09-17T14:03:25.835Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-09-15T10:17:03.993

Modified: 2026-09-17T14:17:14.140

Link: CVE-2026-45048

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-09-16T06:00:13Z

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