{"items":[{"id":"NVI-00006339","kind":"vulnerability","title":"Pterodactyl Panel's SFTP sessions remain active after user account deletion or password change","revision":1,"unknowns":["Customer inventory, deployment, reachability and exploitation have not been inspected."],"lifecycle":"active","identifiers":["GHSA-hr7j-63v7-vj7g"],"plain_summary":"OSV carries this publisher advisory for pterodactyl/panel, github.com/pterodactyl/wings. This is an aggregated source copy; consult the original publisher and compare update dates.","review_status":"source_listed","control_topics":[],"public_actions":[{"summary":"The original advisory lists fixed boundaries 1.12.1 for pterodactyl/panel. Confirm the publisher’s latest guidance.","source_ids":["sr-b0af33cad9d00b60e7c0daeb3641f905"],"action_type":"vendor_patch","limitations":"Confirm current vendor support, compatibility and deployment evidence. This report has not tested a fix in your system.","current_supported_target":null}],"schema_version":"1.1.0","source_metrics":[],"why_it_matters":"Published affected context helps an owner decide what evidence to gather. This report has not examined your application.","related_sources":[{"id":"sr-b0af33cad9d00b60e7c0daeb3641f905","url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hr7j-63v7-vj7g","basis":"vendor_advisory","notes":"GitHub-origin advisory, CC-BY-4.0; OSV is an aggregate copy, not independent corroboration.","title":"GHSA-hr7j-63v7-vj7g","publisher":"GitHub Advisory Database via OSV","observed_at":"2026-10-31T21:42:20.432Z"}],"affected_context":[{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-b0af33cad9d00b60e7c0daeb3641f905"],"technology":"pterodactyl/panel","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"### Summary\nDeleting a user account with SFTP access or changing the user's password does not immediately terminate existing SFTP sessions, allowing continued filesystem access after credentials are revoked.\nThis can result in unintended and unauthorized access to server files even after administrators believe access has been fully invalidated.\n\n\n### Details\nWhen a user with SFTP access is deleted from the Pterodactyl Panel or when the user's password is changed while one or more SFTP connections are active, those existing connections remain fully functional.\n\nNeither account deletion nor password change invalidates the authentication state of already-established SFTP sessions. As a result, the active SFTP connection pool continues to allow read and write operations until the client disconnects or the session times out.\n\nThis behavior occurs even when the password is changed by an administrator through the panel, meaning credential rotation does not revoke active access.\n\nThis suggests that active SFTP sessions are not tracked or forcefully terminated on credential revocation events. This effectively prevents administrators from responding to credential compromise incidents in real","public_affected_ranges":["ECOSYSTEM: introduced 0; fixed 1.12.1"]},{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-b0af33cad9d00b60e7c0daeb3641f905"],"technology":"github.com/pterodactyl/wings","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"### Summary\nDeleting a user account with SFTP access or changing the user's password does not immediately terminate existing SFTP sessions, allowing continued filesystem access after credentials are revoked.\nThis can result in unintended and unauthorized access to server files even after administrators believe access has been fully invalidated.\n\n\n### Details\nWhen a user with SFTP access is deleted from the Pterodactyl Panel or when the user's password is changed while one or more SFTP connections are active, those existing connections remain fully functional.\n\nNeither account deletion nor password change invalidates the authentication state of already-established SFTP sessions. As a result, the active SFTP connection pool continues to allow read and write operations until the client disconnects or the session times out.\n\nThis behavior occurs even when the password is changed by an administrator through the panel, meaning credential rotation does not revoke active access.\n\nThis suggests that active SFTP sessions are not tracked or forcefully terminated on credential revocation events. This effectively prevents administrators from responding to credential compromise incidents in real","public_affected_ranges":["SEMVER: introduced 0; fixed 1.12.1"]}],"null_published_at":"2026-10-31T22:13:10.052Z","source_updated_at":"2026-02-23T19:41:19.875Z","source_disclosed_at":"2026-02-17T17:15:18.000Z","is_synthetic_fixture":false,"null_last_reviewed_at":null,"public_change_summary":"First indexed by Null; source disclosure date is shown separately.","null_first_observed_at":"2026-10-31T21:42:20.432Z"}],"next_cursor":null,"snapshot_revision":"42594"}