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    CVE-2018-12520

    An issue was discovered in ntopng 3.4 before 3.4.180617. The PRNG involved in the generation of session IDs is not seeded at program startup. This results in deterministic session IDs being allocated for active user sessions. An attacker with foreknowledge of the operating system and standard library in use by the host running the service and the username of the user whose session they're targeting can abuse the deterministic random number generation in order to hijack the user's session, thus escalating their access.

    Published:Jul 5, 2018
    Last Modified:Nov 21, 2024
    EPS:Jul 5, 2018
    EPSS Score:0.07697
    CVSS Score:8.1

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Ntop
    Product
    Ntopng

    Exploits

    http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Jul/14https://gist.github.com/Psychotropos/3e8c047cada9b1fb716e6a014a428b7fhttps://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44973/http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Jul/14https://gist.github.com/Psychotropos/3e8c047cada9b1fb716e6a014a428b7fhttps://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44973/https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44973

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    No CAPEC recorded yet

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    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High