CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-49344

Session Fixation

Published: Feb 20, 2025 | Modified: Mar 11, 2025
CVSS 3.x
4.3
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

IBM OpenPages with Watson 8.3 and 9.0 IBM OpenPages

with Watson Assistant chat feature enabled the application establishes a session when a user logs in and uses chat, but the chat session is still left active after logout.

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
Openpages_with_watson Ibm 8.3 (including) 8.3.0.3 (excluding)
Openpages_with_watson Ibm 9.0 (including) 9.0.0.5 (excluding)

Extended Description

Such a scenario is commonly observed when:

Potential Mitigations

References