FreeBSD : mantis -- session hijacking vulnerability (00d6040a-b8e0-11dd-a578-0030843d3802)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 34939

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.

Description

The mantis Team reports :

When configuring a web application to use only ssl (e. g. by forwarding all http-requests to https), a user would expect that sniffing and hijacking the session is impossible. Though, for this to be secure, one needs to set the session cookie to have the secure flag. Else the cookie will be transferred through http if the victim's browser does a single http-request on the same domain.

Solution

Update the affected package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 34939

File Name: freebsd_pkg_00d6040ab8e011dda5780030843d3802.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Family: FreeBSD Local Security Checks

Published: 11/24/2008

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:mantis, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 11/22/2008

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/14/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-3102

CWE: 310

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