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Joomla Session Hijacking

Joomla Session Hijacking
Posted Dec 16, 2008
Authored by Hanno Boeck | Site hboeck.de

Joomla fails to set the secure flag in the session cookie allowing the possibility of a session getting hijacked.

tags | advisory
advisories | CVE-2008-4122
SHA-256 | a0f0b11a97d38cd11e6da4f7b89ff1d72b8153bcd12e0b35bdbafea736cee8af

Joomla Session Hijacking

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Joomla: Session hijacking vulnerability, CVE-2008-4122

References

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4122
http://int21.de/cve/CVE-2008-4122-joomla.html
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.

Joomla 1.5.8 does not set that flag. I've contacted the Joomla security team
in advance but got no reply.

Disclosure Timeline

2008-11-18: Vendor contacted
2008-12-16 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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Hanno Böck Blog: http://www.hboeck.de/
GPG: 3DBD3B20 Jabber/Mail: hanno@hboeck.de
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