Screen SFT DAB 1.9.3 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability that allows attackers to change user passwords by exploiting weak session management controls. Attackers can reuse IP-bound session identifiers to issue unauthorized requests to the userManager API and modify user credentials without proper authentication.
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.
Such a scenario is commonly observed when:
In the generic exploit of session fixation vulnerabilities, an attacker creates a new session on a web application and records the associated session identifier. The attacker then causes the victim to associate, and possibly authenticate, against the server using that session identifier, giving the attacker access to the user’s account through the active session.