CyberRota Analysis
AI-GeneratedThe vulnerability in Vendure allows an attacker to authenticate as a victim by exploiting the ExternalAuthenticationService, which does not require email ownership verification before binding an external identity to an existing account. This can lead to unauthorized access to sensitive customer information, including orders and personal data. Organizations using Vendure versions prior to 3.7.0, especially those with custom external authentication strategies, should prioritize updating to the latest version to mitigate this critical risk.
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Original NVD Description
Vendure is an open-source headless commerce platform. Prior to 3.7.0, ExternalAuthenticationService.createCustomerAndUser in packages/core/src/service/helpers/external-authentication/external-authentication.service.ts selects an existing customer user by emailAddress and attaches a newly presented ExternalAuthenticationMethod without requiring verified to be true. In deployments with a custom external AuthenticationStrategy that forwards an email whose ownership the provider has not verified, an attacker can authenticate with a victim's email and bind the attacker's external identity to the victim's existing account. This can expose orders, addresses, and personal information and permit account changes or orders as the victim. Native-only email and password deployments and external strategies that always require provider-verified email ownership are unaffected, and new-account creation for an unused email remains permitted. This issue is fixed in version 3.7.0.