Vulnerability CVE-2020-5205


Published: 2020-01-09

Description:
In Pow (Hex package) before 1.0.16, the use of Plug.Session in Pow.Plug.Session is susceptible to session fixation attacks if a persistent session store is used for Plug.Session, such as Redis or a database. Cookie store, which is used in most Phoenix apps, doesn't have this vulnerability.

Type:

CWE-384

(Session Fixation)

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5.5/10
4.9/10
8/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
None
Affected software
Powauth -> POW 

 References:
https://github.com/danschultzer/pow/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v1016-2020-01-07
https://github.com/danschultzer/pow/commit/578ffd3d8bb8e8a26077b644222186b108da474f
https://github.com/danschultzer/pow/security/advisories/GHSA-v2wf-c3j6-wpvw

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