Vulnerability CVE-2011-4718
Published: 2013-08-13   Modified: 2013-08-14

Description:
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.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10
6.4/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
PHP -> PHP 

 References:
http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=25e8fcc88fa20dc9d4c47184471003f436927cde
http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=169b78eb79b0e080b67f9798708eb3771c6d0b2f
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/strict_sessions
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=60491
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