Vulnerability CVE-2018-10966
Published: 2018-06-05

Description:
An issue was discovered in GamerPolls 0.4.6, related to config/environments/all.js and config/initializers/02_passport.js. An attacker can edit the Passport.js contents of the session cookie to contain the ID number of the account they wish to take over, and re-sign it using the hard coded secret.

Type:

CWE-798

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Gamerpolls -> Gamerpolls 

 References:
https://github.com/GamerPolls/gamerpolls.com/blob/03ccbaf219410e0a45390d0efc12017f08a25282/config/environments/all.js#L58
https://github.com/GamerPolls/gamerpolls.com/pull/56
https://www.digitalinterruption.com/single-post/2018/06/04/Are-Your-Cookies-Telling-Your-Fortune
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