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CVE-2020-27739 (GCVE-0-2020-27739)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-10-28 18:44 – Updated: 2024-08-04 16:18
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Summary
A Weak Session Management vulnerability in Citadel WebCit through 926 allows unauthenticated remote attackers to hijack recently logged-in users' sessions. NOTE: this was reported to the vendor in a publicly archived "Multiple Security Vulnerabilities in WebCit 926" thread.
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