Vulnerability in Jenzabar Internet Campus Solution
CVE-2020-8434
Jenzabar JICS (aka Internet Campus Solution) before 9.0.1 Patch 3, 9.1 before 9.1.2 Patch 2, and 9.2 before 9.2.2 Patch 8 has session cookies that are a deterministic function of the username. There is a hard-coded password to supply a PBKDF feeding into AES to encrypt a username and base64 encode it to a client-side cookie for persistent session authentication. By knowing the key and algorithm, an attacker can select any username, encrypt it, base64 encode it, and save it in their browser with the correct JICSLoginCookie cookie format to impersonate any real user in the JICS database without the need for authenticating (or verifying with MFA if implemented).
EPSS: 0.013 (68.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.
Affected products
- Jenzabar Internet_campus_solution
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2020-8434?
- CVE-2020-8434 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Jenzabar Internet Campus Solution, classified under Session Fixation. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2020-05-19.
- How severe is CVE-2020-8434?
- Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.