CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2022-25896

Session Fixation

Published: Jul 01, 2022 | Modified: Jul 13, 2022
CVSS 3.x
4.8
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS 2.x
5.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

This affects the package passport before 0.6.0. When a user logs in or logs out, the session is regenerated instead of being closed.

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
Passport Passport_project * 0.6.0 (excluding)

Extended Description

Such a scenario is commonly observed when:

Potential Mitigations

References