CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-1804

Session Fixation

Published: Dec 13, 2018 | Modified: Oct 09, 2019
CVSS 3.x
3.7
LOW
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

IBM Security Access Manager Appliance 9.0.1.0, 9.0.2.0, 9.0.3.0, 9.0.4.0, and 9.0.5.0 does not set the secure attribute on authorization tokens or session cookies. This could allow an attacker to obtain sensitive information using man in the middle techniques. IBM X-Force ID: 149703.

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
Security_access_manager Ibm 9.0.1.0 (including) 9.0.5.0 (including)

Extended Description

Such a scenario is commonly observed when:

Potential Mitigations

References