GHSA-fpwp-69xv-c67f

aiohttp-session Session Fixation vulnerability

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2018-1000519

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	aiohttp-session	< 2.4.0	2.4.0

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

The pypi package aiohttp-session before 2.4.0 contained a Session Fixation vulnerability in `load_session` function for RedisStorage that can result in Session Hijacking. This attack appear to be exploitable via Any method that allows setting session cookies (`?session=<>`, or meta tags or script tags with Set-Cookie).

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000519 advisory
https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp-session/issues/272 web
https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp-session/commit/6b7864004d3442dbcfaf8687f63262c1c629f569 web
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fpwp-69xv-c67f advisory
https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp-session package
https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp-session/blob/master/aiohttp_session/redis_storage.py#L60 web
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/aiohttp-session/PYSEC-2018-80.yaml web