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CentralAuth Session Fixation
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Description

CentralAuth is vulnerable to Session Fixation attacks [0]. It uses the existing session id from a browsers cookie when setting up the CentralAuth session, without resetting the value.

[0] - https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Session_fixation

If an attacker can set a cookie with the name 'centralauth_Session' with a known value on a victims browser and the victim later logs in, the attacker can impersonate the victim by using the CentralAuth session id with the chosen value.


Version: unspecified
Severity: normal

Details

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bz40962

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 1:13 AM
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Using CVE-2012-5395 to track this

Created attachment 11353
Generate new Session ID for CentralAuth on login

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Merged gerrit 36094 links here, bug maybe resolved