CVE-2007-4188

Session fixation vulnerability in Joomla! before 1.0.13 (aka Sunglow) allows remote attackers to hijack administrative web sessions via unspecified vectors.

Weakness

Authenticating a user, or otherwise establishing a new user session, without invalidating any existing session identifier gives an attacker the opportunity to steal authenticated sessions.

Affected Software

Extended Description

Such a scenario is commonly observed when:

Potential Mitigations

Related Attack Patterns

• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/196.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/21.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/31.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/39.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/59.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/60.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/61.html

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/26239
• http://www.joomla.org/content/view/3677/1/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/476017/100/0/threaded
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2719
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35953