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Privilege Escalation in OpenAM Community Edition Session Management Endpoint

IdentifiersCVE-2026-45048CWE-639

OpenAM Community Edition contains an authenticated privilege escalation vulnerability in its session management endpoint. Due to insufficient authorization checks, a low-privileged authenticated user can query session information for arbitrary users rather than being limited to their own session context. The exposed session information can include active session credentials or tokens for other users. This creates an information exposure condition that can be leveraged to assume the identity of other users, including privileged accounts, and escalate privileges within the platform.

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ANALYST BRIEF

Impact, mitigation & remediation

What it means. What to do now. Patch path, mitigations, and the assume-compromise checklist.

Impact

What an attacker gets, and what they’ve been doing with it.

Successful exploitation allows an authenticated low-privileged user to retrieve active session credentials associated with other users, potentially including administrative accounts. With those credentials, an attacker may impersonate targeted users, gain elevated privileges, perform unauthorized administrative actions, access protected resources, and further compromise the OpenAM deployment.

Mitigation

If you can’t patch tonight, do this now.

Until patches can be applied, restrict network and application-layer access to the session management endpoint, especially from low-privileged user contexts. Limit deployments using stateful session storage where feasible, reduce the ability of non-administrative users to query session information, and monitor logs for anomalous or suspicious session-management requests targeting other users' sessions.

Remediation

Patch, then assume compromise.

Upgrade OpenAM Community Edition to version 16.1.1 or later, which addresses the authorization flaw in the session management functionality.

PUBLIC EXPLOITS

Exploits

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EXPOSURE SURFACE

Affected products & vendors

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VendorProductType

OpenIdentityPlatformOpenam-Coreapplication

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ACTIVITY FEED

Recent activity

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Threat actor evidence

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Associated malware

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Detection signatures

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Vendor-by-vendor mapping

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