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Ubuntu: USN-4597-1 (CVE-2017-6807): mod_auth_mellon vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4597-1 (CVE-2017-6807): mod_auth_mellon vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
03/13/2017
Created
10/26/2020
Added
10/23/2020
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

mod_auth_mellon before 0.13.1 is vulnerable to a Cross-Site Session Transfer attack, where a user with access to one web site running on a server can copy their session cookie to a different web site on the same server to get access to that site.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libapache2-mod-auth-mellon

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