CVE-2020-8434 Information

Description

Jenzabar JICS (aka Internet Campus Solution) before 9.0.1 Patch 3 9.1 before 9.1.2 Patch 2 and 9.2 before 9.2.2 Patch 8 has session cookies that are a deterministic function of the username. There is a hard-coded password to supply a PBKDF feeding into AES to encrypt a username and base64 encode it to a client-side cookie for persistent session authentication. By knowing the key and algorithm an attacker can select any username encrypt it base64 encode it and save it in their browser with the correct JICSLoginCookie cookie format to impersonate any real user in the JICS database without the need for authenticating (or verifying with MFA if implemented).

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

https://medium.com/@mdavis332/higher-ed-erp-portal-vulnerability-auth-bypass-to-login-any-account-f1aeef438f80

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

9.8

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