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Security Advisories: MDE2OlNlY3VyaXR5QWR2aXNvcnlHSFNBLWZwd3AtNjl4di1jNjdm

aiohttp-session Session Fixation vulnerability

The pypi package aiohttp-session before 2.4.0 contained a Session Fixation vulnerability in load_session function for RedisStorage that can result in Session Hijacking. This attack appear to be exploitable via Any method that allows setting session cookies (?session=<>, or meta tags or script tags with Set-Cookie).

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fpwp-69xv-c67f
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Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: Moderate
Classification: General
Published: over 5 years ago
Updated: 8 months ago

CVSS Score: 6.5
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Identifiers: GHSA-fpwp-69xv-c67f, CVE-2018-1000519
References:

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000519
• https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp-session/issues/272
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fpwp-69xv-c67f
• https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp-session/blob/master/aiohttp_session/redis_storage.py#L60
• https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp-session/commit/6b7864004d3442dbcfaf8687f63262c1c629f569

Repository: https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp-session
Blast Radius: 17.8

Affected Packages