Ping Identity PingFederate Password Reset and Password Change Mishandling with an authentication policy in parallel reset flows

published 2022-02-10 4y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2021-28990

cvss: 5.3; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.5%; EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 45%
public exploits: 0; none known

When a password reset or password change flow with an authentication policy is configured and the adapter in the reset or change policy supports multiple parallel reset flows, an existing user can reset another existing users password.

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Exploit prediction

0.54% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 45% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	5.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD	3.1	6.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD	2.0	3.5	AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected products

Ping Identity PingFederate

Classification

Weakness

CWE-285 Improper Authorization

References

pingidentity.com /en/resources/downloads/pingfederate.html
vendor-advisory
docs.pingidentity.com /bundle/pingfederate-103/page/hhm1634833631515.html
release-notes, vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2021-42000
NVD CVE-2021-42000

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