CVE-2020-5205 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

https://github.com/danschultzer/pow/blob/master/CHANGELOG.mdv1016-2020-01-07 https://github.com/danschultzer/pow/commit/578ffd3d8bb8e8a26077b644222186b108da474f https://github.com/danschultzer/pow/security/advisories/GHSA-v2wf-c3j6-wpvw

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

LOW

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

5.4