CVE-2018-18380

A Session Fixation issue was discovered in Bigtree before 4.2.24. admin.php accepts a user-provided PHP session ID instead of regenerating a new one after a user has logged in to the application. The Session Fixation could allow an attacker to hijack an admin session.

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

• https://gist.github.com/zionspike/680eb504db7c86296fad0eff30c6317f
• https://github.com/bigtreecms/BigTree-CMS/commit/c69402c4764ed9a76301c57277aefe70141b6418
• https://github.com/bigtreecms/BigTree-CMS/tree/4.2.24