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CVE-2011-4718

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Date: October 3, 2022

Session fixation vulnerability in the Sessions subsystem in PHP before 5.5.2 allows remote attackers to hijack web sessions by specifying a session ID.

Language: C

Severity Score

5.6

Related Resources (7)

Url: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/strict_sessions

Url: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=25e8fcc88fa20dc9d4c47184471003f436927cde

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-4718

Url: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=60491

Url: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=169b78eb79b0e080b67f9798708eb3771c6d0b2f

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-4718

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2011-4718

Severity Score

5.6

Weakness Type (CWE)

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

CWE-264

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version 5.5.2

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.6
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	LOW
Integrity (I):	LOW
Availability (A):	LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:	6.8
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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