CVE-2011-4718

medium

Description

Session fixation vulnerability in the Sessions subsystem in PHP before 5.5.2 allows remote attackers to hijack web sessions by specifying a session ID.

References

http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=169b78eb79b0e080b67f9798708eb3771c6d0b2f

http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=25e8fcc88fa20dc9d4c47184471003f436927cde

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=60491

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/strict_sessions

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2013-08-13

Updated: 2013-08-13

Type: CWE-264

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Impact Score: 6.4

Exploitability Score: 8.6

Severity: MEDIUM