Terminate user sessions and send password change notification after password update to enhance security.

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Summary

• The Vulnerability Description: When a user updates their password, the system validates the security answer and returns the user object, but it fails to terminate existing sessions or notify the user about the password change, leaving accounts exposed to session hijacking and lacking audit notifications.

• This Fix: The patch ensures that after a password update, all active sessions for the user are explicitly terminated and a password change notification email is sent, improving both account security and user awareness.

• The Cause of the Issue: The original implementation did not include logic to clear session tokens or send password change alerts, resulting in potential unauthorized continued access and no user notification of a critical account change.

• The Patch Implementation: The fix introduces dedicated functions to remove a user's session tokens (clearSessionsFor) and trigger a password change notification (sendPasswordResetNotification), and calls both immediately after a successful password update.

Vulnerability Details

• Vulnerability Class: Natural Language Rule Violation
• Severity: 5.3
• Affected File: routes/resetPassword.ts
• Vulnerable Lines: 38-41

Code Snippets

diff --git a/lib/insecurity.ts b/lib/insecurity.ts
index 0e4e3d993..64abae6a2 100644
--- a/lib/insecurity.ts
+++ b/lib/insecurity.ts
@@ -199,3 +199,16 @@ export const updateAuthenticatedUsers = () => (req: Request, res: Response, next
   }
   next()
 }
+
+export const clearSessionsFor = (user: UserModel) => {
+  const token = authenticatedUsers.tokenOf(user)
+  if (token) {
+    delete authenticatedUsers.tokenMap[token]
+    delete authenticatedUsers.idMap[user.id]
+  }
+}
+
+export const sendPasswordResetNotification = (email: string) => {
+  // Placeholder: replace with real email dispatch
+  console.info(`Password reset notification sent to ${email}`)
+}
diff --git a/routes/resetPassword.ts b/routes/resetPassword.ts
index 235be1b45..48544d4ac 100644
--- a/routes/resetPassword.ts
+++ b/routes/resetPassword.ts
@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ module.exports = function resetPassword () {
         if ((data != null) && security.hmac(answer) === data.answer) {
           UserModel.findByPk(data.UserId).then((user: UserModel | null) => {
             user?.update({ password: newPassword }).then((user: UserModel) => {
+              security.clearSessionsFor(user)
+              security.sendPasswordResetNotification(user.email)
               verifySecurityAnswerChallenges(user, answer)
               res.json({ user })
             }).catch((error: unknown) => {

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