Session fixation vulnerability in Drupal 5.x before 5.9 and 6.x before 6.3, when contributed modules "terminate the current request during a login event," allows remote attackers to hijack web sessions via unknown vectors.

Update to 5.9, security fixes: SA-2008-046 - http://drupal.org/node/286417 CVE-2008-3222 - session fixation issue, that was first reported to be fixed via SA-2008-044 in drupal 5.8, but the patch for it was not included in the 5.8 tarball. Remember to log in to your site as the admin user before upgrading this package. After upgrading the package, browse to http://host/drupal/update.php to run the upgrade script.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Update to 6.3, security fixes: SA-2008-044 Remember to log in to your site as the admin user before upgrading this package. After upgrading the package, browse to http://host/drupal/update.php to run the upgrade script.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Update to 5.8, security fixes: SA-2008-044 Remember to log in to your site as the admin user before upgrading this package. After upgrading the package, browse to http://host/drupal/update.php to run the upgrade script.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
33778	Fedora 8 : drupal-5.9-1.fc8 (2008-6916)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
33519	Fedora 9 : drupal-6.3-1.fc9 (2008-6415)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
33518	Fedora 8 : drupal-5.8-1.fc8 (2008-6411)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

Detections

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CVE-2008-3222

critical

Tenable Plugins

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high

high