What is CVE-2018-1000519?

CVE-2018-1000519 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Aio-Libs Aiohttp Session, classified under Session Fixation. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-06-26.

How severe is CVE-2018-1000519?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Aio-Libs Aiohttp Session

CVE-2018-1000519

aio-libs aiohttp-session contains a Session Fixation vulnerability in load_session function for RedisStorage (see: https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp-session/blob/master/aiohttp_session/redis_storage.py#L42) 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).

EPSS: 0.012 (64.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Aio-libs Aiohttp_session
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-384 — Session Fixation

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-1000519?: CVE-2018-1000519 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Aio-Libs Aiohttp Session, classified under Session Fixation. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-06-26.
How severe is CVE-2018-1000519?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.