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Improper Authentication

CVE-2013-5426

Severity Medium
Score 4.9/10

Summary

Session fixation vulnerability in IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management - Collaborative Edition 10.x before 10.1 IF5 and 11.0 before IF1 and InfoSphere Master Data Management Server for Product Information Management 9.x before 9.1 IF11 allows remote authenticated users to hijack web sessions via unspecified vectors.

  • MEDIUM
  • ADJACENT_NETWORK
  • SINGLE
  • PARTIAL
  • PARTIAL
  • PARTIAL

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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Advisory Timeline

  • Published