CVE-2012-3359 (GCVE-0-2012-3359)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-03-30 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 20:05
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Summary
Luci in Red Hat Conga stores the user's username and password in a Base64 encoded string in the __ac session cookie, which allows attackers to gain privileges by accessing this cookie. NOTE: this issue has been SPLIT due to different vulnerability types. Use CVE-2013-7347 for the incorrect enforcement of a user timeout.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 81/100 over 973 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=607179 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0128.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Date Public
2013-01-08 00:00
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