ts-2025-001
Vulnerability from tailscale

Description: Potential for continued admin console access past inactivity timeout

What happened?

The admin console session timeout works by recording tailnet-specific activity timestamps on login and from browser requests triggered by user activity. Previously the admin console also erroneously considered the act of switching between multiple tailnets to be a login and recorded a fresh timestamp for the user in the destination tailnet while switching.

For tailnets whose users were also members of other tailnets with less strict inactivity timeouts, these users may have been able to continue their access to the admin console for longer than expected if they switched between tailnets and did not time out of the less restrictive tailnet.

The issue was present since inactivity timeout was initially released in August 2024, and was fixed in production on March 7th, 2025. A user who switches to a tailnet in which their session has already expired will be logged out and redirected to the login page.

Who was affected?

Tailnets with admin console session timeout configurations and users who are members of other tailnets with less strict session timeout configurations.

What was the impact?

Users of tailnets with strict admin console session timeouts may have been able to continue their access to the admin console past expected timeouts by switching to and from other tailnets in the admin console whose console configurations were less strict.

What do I need to do?

No action is required.

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