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The session.lua library in CGILua 5.2 alpha 1 and 5.2...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 17, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 28, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

The session.lua library in CGILua 5.2 alpha 1 and 5.2 alpha 2 uses weak session IDs generated based on OS time, which allows remote attackers to hijack arbitrary sessions via a brute force attack. NOTE: CVE-2014-10300 and CVE-2014-10400 were SPLIT from this ID.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Feb 6, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 17, 2022
Last updated Jan 28, 2023

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

0.280%
(69th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2014-2875

GHSA ID

GHSA-c8vc-vjpf-2fph

Source code

No known source code

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