CVE-2020-5205 (GCVE-0-2020-5205)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-01-09 02:05 – Updated: 2024-08-04 08:22
VLAI
Title
Session fixation attack in Pow (Hex package)
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.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
CWE
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7534 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
danschultzer Pow Affected: < 1.0.16
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