National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-2735
Original release date:09/28/2012
Last revised:10/10/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Session fixation vulnerability in Cumin before 0.1.5444, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Messaging, Realtime, and Grid (MRG) 2.0, allows remote attackers to hijack web sessions via a crafted session cookie.
Description
Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/384.html 'CWE-384: Session Fixation'
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
4.9
Exploitability Subscore:
6.8
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification
Per: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1278.html
" An authenticated user able to
pre-set the Cumin session cookie in a victim's browser could possibly use
this flaw to steal the victim's session after they log into Cumin."
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External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2012:1281
Type: Advisory
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2012:1278
Type: Advisory
External Source: MISC
Name: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=832151