CVE-2012-3359

conga: insecure handling of luci web interface sessions

Severity Score

3.7

*CVSS v2

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

Luci in Red Hat Conga stores the user's username and password in a Base64 encoded string in the __ac session cookie, which allows attackers to gain privileges by accessing this cookie. NOTE: this issue has been SPLIT due to different vulnerability types. Use CVE-2013-7347 for the incorrect enforcement of a user timeout.

Luci en Red Hat Conga almacena el nombre de usuario y la contraseña del usuario en una cadena codificada en Base64 en la cookie de sesión __ac, lo que permite a atacantes ganar privilegios mediante el acceso a esta cookie. NOTA: este problema ha sido dividido (SPLIT) debido a tipos de vulnerabilidad diferentes. Utilice CVE-2013-7347 para la ejecución incorrecta de un timeout de usuario.

It was discovered that luci stored usernames and passwords in session cookies. This issue prevented the session inactivity timeout feature from working correctly, and allowed attackers able to get access to a session cookie to obtain the victim's authentication credentials.

*Credits: N/A

CVSS Scores

NISTv2 3.7

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

High

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

Partial

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2012-06-14 CVE Reserved
2013-01-08 CVE Published
2023-03-08 EPSS Updated
2024-08-06 CVE Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-255: Credentials Management Errors

CAPEC

References (3)

URL	Tag	Source

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0128.html	2023-11-07
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=607179	2013-01-08
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-3359	2013-01-08

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Redhat Search vendor "Redhat"		Conga Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Conga"				*		-		Affected
Redhat Search vendor "Redhat"		Enterprise Linux Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux"				5 Search vendor "Redhat" for product "Enterprise Linux" and version "5"		-		Affected