GHSA-9xcj-c8cr-8c3c

In Apache Tomcat, when using FORM authentication there was a narrow window where an attacker could perform a session fixation attack

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2019-17563
CVSS_V3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

When using FORM authentication with Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.29, 8.5.0 to 8.5.49 and 7.0.0 to 7.0.98 there was a narrow window where an attacker could perform a session fixation attack. The window was considered too narrow for an exploit to be practical but, erring on the side of caution, this issue has been treated as a security vulnerability.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
Maven · org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-coreintroduced 0, fixed 7.0.99
Maven · org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-coreintroduced 8.0.0, fixed 8.5.50
Maven · org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-coreintroduced 9.0.0, fixed 9.0.30

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database