UBUNTU-CVE-2017-6807

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2017-6807

    Published: 13 Mar 2017Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-6807
    Aliases:
    USN-4597-1

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-6807, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4597-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-6807

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libapache2-mod-auth-mellon

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+deb9u1build0.16.04.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.12.0-2+deb9u1build0.16.04.1

    Affected versions

    0.10.0-1

    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