CVE-2021-40691 (GCVE-0-2021-40691)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-01-21 18:17 – Updated: 2024-08-04 02:51
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
A session hijack risk was identified in the Shibboleth authentication plugin.
Severity
4.3 (Medium)
CWE
- Session Hijack
Assigner
References
1 reference
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2043411 | x_refsource_MISC |
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