High
Security advisory
Redmine 4.2.0 and 4.2.1 allow existing user sessions to continue upon enabling two-factor authentication for the user's account, but the intended behavior is for those sessions to be terminated.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-37156
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:41 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Redmine 4.2.0 and 4.2.1 allow existing user sessions to continue upon enabling two-factor authentication for the user's account, but the intended behavior is for those sessions to be terminated.
osv:CVE-2021-37156
Complete source record
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