CVE-2018-9026

A session fixation vulnerability in CA Privileged Access Manager 2.x allows remote attackers to hijack user sessions with a specially crafted request.

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

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104496
• https://support.ca.com/us/product-content/recommended-reading/security-notices/ca20180614-01--security-notice-for-ca-privileged-access-manager.html