CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-1768

Insufficient Session Expiration

Published: Feb 07, 2020 | Modified: Feb 11, 2020
CVSS 3.x
5.4
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
CVSS 2.x
5.5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The external frontend system uses numerous background calls to the backend. Each background request is treated as user activity so the SessionMaxIdleTime will not be reached. This issue affects: OTRS 7.0.x version 7.0.14 and prior versions.

Weakness

According to WASC, “Insufficient Session Expiration is when a web site permits an attacker to reuse old session credentials or session IDs for authorization.”

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Otrs Otrs 7.0.0 (including) 7.0.14 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References