2FA bypass in Kaseya VSA <= v9.5.6
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
Kaseya VSA before 9.5.7 allows attackers to bypass the 2FA requirement. The need to use 2FA for authentication in enforce client-side instead of server-side and can be bypassed using a local proxy. Thus rendering 2FA useless. Detailed description --- During the login process, after the user authenticates with username and password, the server sends a response to the client with the booleans MFARequired and MFAEnroled. If the attacker has obtained a password of a user and used an intercepting proxy (e.g. Burp Suite) to change the value of MFARequered from True to False, there is no prompt for the second factor, but the user is still logged in.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Active
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | all versions | — | No fix listed | CNA |
- — Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2021-30120
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-r6j9-rwx4-qcj3
References
More Kaseya Vsa vulnerabilities
- TI-2021-10668 Authenticated Authenticated reflective XSS in Kaseya VSA <= v9.5.6 CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.4
- TI-2021-10666 Authenticated SQL injection in Kaseya VSA < v9.5.6 CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2021-10667 Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in Kaseya VSA < v9.5.5 CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2021-10736 Unauthenticated XML External Entity vulnerability in Kaseya VSA < v9.5.6 CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2021-10670 (Semi-)Authenticated local file inclusion in Kaseya VSA < v9.5.6 CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
- TI-2019-10812 An issue was discovered in Kaseya VSA RMM through 9.5.0.22. CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.7
Sources
- CVE-2021-30120 · CVE Program
- CVE-2021-30120 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-r6j9-rwx4-qcj3 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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