CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-4555

Session Fixation

Published: Dec 21, 2020 | Modified: Dec 22, 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:L/A:N
CVSS 2.x
5.5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

IBM Financial Transaction Manager 3.0.6 and 3.1.0 does not invalidate session after logout which could allow an authenticated user to impersonate another user on the system. IBM X-Force ID: 183328.

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
Financial_transaction_manager Ibm 2.1.1.0 (including) 2.1.1.0 (including)
Financial_transaction_manager Ibm 3.0.0 (including) 3.0.0 (including)
Financial_transaction_manager Ibm 3.0.2 (including) 3.0.2 (including)
Financial_transaction_manager Ibm 3.0.5 (including) 3.0.5 (including)
Financial_transaction_manager Ibm 3.0.6 (including) 3.0.6 (including)
Financial_transaction_manager Ibm 3.1.0 (including) 3.1.0 (including)
Financial_transaction_manager Ibm 3.2.1 (including) 3.2.1 (including)
Financial_transaction_manager Ibm 3.2.2 (including) 3.2.2 (including)
Financial_transaction_manager Ibm 3.2.3 (including) 3.2.3 (including)
Financial_transaction_manager Ibm 3.2.4 (including) 3.2.4 (including)

Extended Description

Such a scenario is commonly observed when:

Potential Mitigations

References