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GHSA-V2WF-C3J6-WPVW

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-04-12 21:27 – Updated: 2022-04-12 21:27

Summary

Session fixation

Details

Impact

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.

Workarounds

Call Plug.Conn.configure_session(conn, renew: true) periodically and after privilege change. A custom authorization plug can be written where the create/3 method should return the conn only after Plug.Conn.configure_session/2 have been called on it.

References

https://github.com/danschultzer/pow/commit/578ffd3d8bb8e8a26077b644222186b108da474f
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Session_fixation

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N

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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-01-09 02:05 – Updated: 2024-08-04 08:22

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

CWE-384 - Session Fixation

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root Scorecard

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/danschultzer/pow/security/advi…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/danschultzer/pow/commit/578ffd…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/danschultzer/pow/blob/master/C…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
danschultzer	Pow	Affected: < 1.0.16

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