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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2008-6722

Low
1.9/10

Summary

Novell Access Manager 3 SP4 does not properly expire X.509 certificate sessions, which allows physically proximate attackers to obtain a logged-in session by using a victim's web-browser process that continues to send the original and valid SSL sessionID, related to inability of Apache Tomcat to clear entries from its SSL cache.

  • MEDIUM
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • NONE

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published