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FKIE_CVE-2014-2875

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2020-02-06 16:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:07
Severity
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
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-2014-10399 and CVE-2014-10400 were SPLIT from this ID.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Apr/318Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/531981/100/0/threadedThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.syhunt.com/en/index.php?n=Advisories.Cgilua-weaksessionidThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Apr/318Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/531981/100/0/threadedThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.syhunt.com/en/index.php?n=Advisories.Cgilua-weaksessionidThird Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
keplerproject cgilua *
keplerproject cgilua *
keplerproject cgilua 5.2
keplerproject cgilua 5.2
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