CVE-2020-5205

CVSS V2 Medium 5.5 CVSS V3 Medium 5.4

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.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2020-5205

Assigner
security-advisories@github.com

Vulnerability Status
Analyzed

Published Version
2020-01-09T02:15:13

Last Modified Date
2020-01-17T14:45:00

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-384	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/384.html

CPE Configuration (Product)

CPE	Vulnerable	Operator	Version Start	Version End
cpe:2.3:a:powauth:pow::::::::	1	OR		1.0.16

CVSS Version 2

Version
2.0

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

Access Vector
NETWORK

Access Compatibility
LOW

Authentication
SINGLE

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL

Integrity Impact
PARTIAL

Availability Impact
NONE

Base Score
5.5

Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
8

Impact Score
4.9

CVSS Version 3

Version
3.1

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK

Attack Compatibility
LOW

Privileges Required
LOW

User Interaction
NONE

Scope
UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact
LOW

Availability Impact
NONE

Base Score
5.4

Base Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
2.8

Impact Score
2.5

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
https://github.com/danschultzer/pow/security/advisories/GHSA-v2wf-c3j6-wpvw	Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/danschultzer/pow/commit/578ffd3d8bb8e8a26077b644222186b108da474f	Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/danschultzer/pow/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v1016-2020-01-07	Third Party Advisory

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-5205
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-5205

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-05-10 16:53:30				Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-04 09:11:26	2020-01-09T02:15Z	2020-01-09T02:15:13	CVE Published Date	updated
2022-12-04 09:11:26		2020-01-17T14:45:00	CVE Modified Date	updated
2022-12-04 09:11:26		Analyzed	Vulnerability Status	updated