CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-13229

Session Fixation

Published: Jun 02, 2020 | Modified: Jun 02, 2020
CVSS 3.x
8.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

An issue was discovered in Sysax Multi Server 6.90. A session can be hijacked if one observes the sid value in any /scgi URI, because it is an authentication token.

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
Multi_server Sysax 6.90 (including) 6.90 (including)

Extended Description

Such a scenario is commonly observed when:

Potential Mitigations

References