PT-2008-5423 · Open Source Matters · Joomla!

Hanno Boeck · CVE-2008-4122 · Published 2008-12-19 · Updated 2024-01-25

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Joomla! version 1.5.8

Description The issue makes it easier for remote attackers to capture the session cookie by intercepting its transmission within an http session, as the secure flag is not set for the session cookie in an https session.

Recommendations For version 1.5.8, consider updating the session cookie handling to set the secure flag when transmitting over https to prevent interception.

Fix

Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-319

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-4122

Affected Products

Joomla!

References · 6

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4122 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/499354/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://int21.de/cve/CVE-2008-4122-joomla.html · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4122 · Note
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4794 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/499295/100/0/threaded · Note