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Joomla! Core 1.5.x Session Hijacking (1.5.0 - 1.5.8)

Description

Joomla! Core is prone to a session hijacking vulnerability. Exploiting this issue may allow attackers to access another user's session, thus giving them the opportunity to do anything the affected user is authorized to do. Joomla! Core versions 1.5.x ranging from 1.5.0 and up to and including 1.5.8 are vulnerable.

Remediation

Update to Joomla! Core version 1.5.9 or latest

References

http://int21.de/cve/CVE-2008-4122-joomla.html

https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/287-20090101-core-jsession-ssl-session-disclosure.html

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Severity

High

Classification

CVE-2008-4122 CWE-310 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Tags

Missing Update

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