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Improper Authentication

CVE-2008-3428

Medium
6.5/10

Summary

Session fixation vulnerability in phpFreeChat 1.1 allows remote authenticated users to hijack web sessions by setting the session_id parameter to match the victim's nickid parameter.

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CWE-287 - Improper Authentication

Improper (or broken) authentication attacks are widespread, and have accounted for many of the worst data breaches in recent years. Improper authentication attacks are a class of vulnerabilities where an attacker impersonates a legitimate user by exploiting weaknesses in either session management or credential management to gain access to the user’s account. This can result in disclosure of sensitive information, and can lead to system compromise, theft, identity theft, and fraud.

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