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Session Fixation

CVE-2020-5205

Medium
6.5/10

Summary

In Pow (Hex package) before 1.0.16, the use of Plug.Session in Pow.Plug.Session is susceptible to session fixation attacks if a persistent session store is used for Plug.Session, such as Redis or a database. Cookie store, which is used in most Phoenix apps, doesn't have this vulnerability.

  • HIGH
  • NETWORK
  • LOW
  • CHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • LOW
  • HIGH
  • NONE

CWE-384 - Session Fixation

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.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published