CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-0721

Session Fixation

Published: Apr 21, 2017 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
8.1
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
4.3 MODERATE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

Session fixation vulnerability in pcsd in pcs before 0.9.157.

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

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Pcs Clusterlabs * 0.9.156 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat pcs-0:0.9.152-10.el7 *
Pcs Ubuntu upstream *

Extended Description

Such a scenario is commonly observed when:

Potential Mitigations

References