Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-10240 - Insufficient Entropy vulnerability in Solarwinds Serv-U

047910
CVSS 7.3 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
LOW
Integrity impact
LOW
Availability impact
LOW
network
low complexity
solarwinds
CWE-331
NVD
Published: 2018-05-16
Updated: 2018-06-25

Summary

SolarWinds Serv-U MFT before 15.1.6 HFv1 assigns authenticated users a low-entropy session token that can be included in requests to the application as a URL parameter in lieu of a session cookie. This session token's value can be brute-forced by an attacker to obtain the corresponding session cookie and hijack the user's session.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Solarwinds
13

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Session Credential Falsification through Prediction
    This attack targets predictable session ID in order to gain privileges. The attacker can predict the session ID used during a transaction to perform spoofing and session hijacking.

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