menalto gallery: Session hijacking vulnerability, CVE-2008-3102

menalto gallery: Session hijacking vulnerability, CVE-2008-3102

References

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3102
http://int21.de/cve/CVE-2008-3102-mantis.html
http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=9524
http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=9533
http://enablesecurity.com/2008/08/11/surf-jack-https-will-not-save-you/
https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-16/dc-16-speakers.html#Perry

Description

When configuring a web application to use only ssl (e. g. by forwarding all
http-requests to https), a user would expect that sniffing and hijacking the
session is impossible.

Though, for this to be secure, one needs to set the session cookie to have the
secure flag. Else the cookie will be transferred through http if the victim's
browser does a single http-request on the same domain.

The mantis bugtracker does not set that flag. The mantis team has fixed this
issue, but not released a new version yet.

Disclosure Timeline

2008-08-12: Vendor contacted
2008-08-13 Vendor committed fix to trunk
2008-09-23 Published advisory

Credits and copyright

This vulnerability was discovered by Hanno Boeck of schokokeks.org webhosting.
It's licensed under the creative commons attribution license.

Hanno Boeck, http://www.hboeck.de

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