CVE-2020-5205

medium

Description

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.

References

Advisories

https://github.com/danschultzer/pow/security/advisories/GHSA-v2wf-c3j6-wpvw

https://github.com/danschultzer/pow/commit/578ffd3d8bb8e8a26077b644222186b108da474f

https://github.com/danschultzer/pow/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v1016-2020-01-07

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-01-09

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.5

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.4

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00257