6.8 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.04 Low
EPSS
Percentile
91.0%
Custom configured session.inc and password.inc need to be audited as
well to verify if they are prone to the following vulnerabilities.
More information can be found in the upstream advisory [0].
CVE-2014-9015 (session hijacking)
Aaron Averill discovered that a specially crafted request can give a
user access to another user’s session, allowing an attacker to hijack a
random session.
CVE-2014-9016 (denial of service)
Michael Cullum, Javier Nieto and Andres Rojas Guerrero discovered that
the password hashing API allows an attacker to send specially crafted
requests resulting in CPU and memory exhaustion. This may lead to the
site becoming unavailable or unresponsive.