CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-4229

Session Fixation

Published: Jun 05, 2020 | Modified: Jun 10, 2020
CVSS 3.x
7.3
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

IBM Worklight/MobileFoundation 8.0.0.0 does not properly invalidate session cookies when a user logs out of a session, which could allow another user to gain unauthorized access to a users session. IBM X-Force ID: 175211.

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
Mobile_foundation Ibm 8.0.0.0 (including) 8.0.0.0 (including)

Extended Description

Such a scenario is commonly observed when:

Potential Mitigations

References