CVE-2017-6807 (GCVE-0-2017-6807)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-03-13 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 15:41
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Summary
mod_auth_mellon before 0.13.1 is vulnerable to a Cross-Site Session Transfer attack, where a user with access to one web site running on a server can copy their session cookie to a different web site on the same server to get access to that site.
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2017-03-13 00:00
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