CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-5141

Session Fixation

Published: Feb 13, 2017 | Modified: Apr 20, 2025
CVSS 3.x
6
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L
CVSS 2.x
6.5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

An issue was discovered in Honeywell XL Web II controller XL1000C500 XLWebExe-2-01-00 and prior, and XLWeb 500 XLWebExe-1-02-08 and prior. An attacker can establish a new user session, without invalidating any existing session identifier, which gives the opportunity to steal authenticated sessions (SESSION FIXATION).

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
Xl_web_ii_controller Honeywell xlwebexe-1-02-08 (including) xlwebexe-1-02-08 (including)
Xl_web_ii_controller Honeywell xlwebexe-2-01-00 (including) xlwebexe-2-01-00 (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