CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-27739

Insufficient Session Expiration

Published: Oct 28, 2020 | Modified: Nov 04, 2020
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

A Weak Session Management vulnerability in Citadel WebCit through 926 allows unauthenticated remote attackers to hijack recently logged-in users sessions. NOTE: this was reported to the vendor in a publicly archived Multiple Security Vulnerabilities in WebCit 926 thread.

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
Webcit Citadel * 926 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References