CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-6043

Session Fixation

Published: Feb 01, 2017 | Modified: Apr 20, 2025
CVSS 3.x
7
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.4 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Tivoli Storage Manager Operations Center could allow a local user to take over a previously logged in user due to session expiration not being enforced.

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
Tivoli_storage_manager Ibm 6.4.1 (including) 6.4.1 (including)
Tivoli_storage_manager Ibm 6.4.1.1 (including) 6.4.1.1 (including)
Tivoli_storage_manager Ibm 6.4.2 (including) 6.4.2 (including)
Tivoli_storage_manager Ibm 6.4.2.1 (including) 6.4.2.1 (including)
Tivoli_storage_manager Ibm 6.4.2.2 (including) 6.4.2.2 (including)
Tivoli_storage_manager Ibm 6.4.2.3 (including) 6.4.2.3 (including)
Tivoli_storage_manager Ibm 6.4.2.4 (including) 6.4.2.4 (including)
Tivoli_storage_manager Ibm 7.1 (including) 7.1 (including)
Tivoli_storage_manager Ibm 7.1.0.1 (including) 7.1.0.1 (including)
Tivoli_storage_manager Ibm 7.1.0.2 (including) 7.1.0.2 (including)
Tivoli_storage_manager Ibm 7.1.1.1 (including) 7.1.1.1 (including)
Tivoli_storage_manager Ibm 7.1.1.2 (including) 7.1.1.2 (including)
Tivoli_storage_manager Ibm 7.1.3 (including) 7.1.3 (including)
Tivoli_storage_manager Ibm 7.1.3.1 (including) 7.1.3.1 (including)
Tivoli_storage_manager Ibm 7.1.3.2 (including) 7.1.3.2 (including)
Tivoli_storage_manager Ibm 7.1.4 (including) 7.1.4 (including)
Tivoli_storage_manager Ibm 7.1.4.1 (including) 7.1.4.1 (including)
Tivoli_storage_manager Ibm 7.1.4.2 (including) 7.1.4.2 (including)
Tivoli_storage_manager Ibm 7.1.7 (including) 7.1.7 (including)

Extended Description

Such a scenario is commonly observed when:

In the generic exploit of session fixation vulnerabilities, an attacker creates a new session on a web application and records the associated session identifier. The attacker then causes the victim to associate, and possibly authenticate, against the server using that session identifier, giving the attacker access to the user’s account through the active session.

Potential Mitigations

References