Vulnerabilities > CVE-2012-5631 - Reliance on Cookies without Validation and Integrity Checking vulnerability in Freeipa 3.0.0

047910
CVSS 8.8 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
freeipa
CWE-565
nessus

Summary

ipa 3.0 does not properly check server identity before sending credential containing cookies

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Freeipa
1

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Accessing/Intercepting/Modifying HTTP Cookies
    This attack relies on the use of HTTP Cookies to store credentials, state information and other critical data on client systems. The first form of this attack involves accessing HTTP Cookies to mine for potentially sensitive data contained therein. The second form of this attack involves intercepting this data as it is transmitted from client to server. This intercepted information is then used by the attacker to impersonate the remote user/session. The third form is when the cookie's content is modified by the attacker before it is sent back to the server. Here the attacker seeks to convince the target server to operate on this falsified information.
  • Manipulating Opaque Client-based Data Tokens
    In circumstances where an application holds important data client-side in tokens (cookies, URLs, data files, and so forth) that data can be manipulated. If client or server-side application components reinterpret that data as authentication tokens or data (such as store item pricing or wallet information) then even opaquely manipulating that data may bear fruit for an Attacker. In this pattern an attacker undermines the assumption that client side tokens have been adequately protected from tampering through use of encryption or obfuscation.

Nessus

NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
NASL idFEDORA_2012-20123.NASL
descriptionUpdate to upstream 3.1.0. Addresses CVE-2012-5631, improper cookie handling. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
last seen2020-03-17
modified2012-12-12
plugin id63240
published2012-12-12
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2012-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/63240
titleFedora 18 : freeipa-3.1.0-1.fc18 (2012-20123)