CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-8434

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2020-05-19 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-05-19
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-384

Description

Jenzabar JICS (aka Internet Campus Solution) before 9.0.1 Patch 3, 9.1 before 9.1.2 Patch 2, and 9.2 before 9.2.2 Patch 8 has session cookies that are a deterministic function of the username. There is a hard-coded password to supply a PBKDF feeding into AES to encrypt a username and base64 encode it to a client-side cookie for persistent session authentication. By knowing the key and algorithm, an attacker can select any username, encrypt it, base64 encode it, and save it in their browser with the correct JICSLoginCookie cookie format to impersonate any real user in the JICS database without the need for authenticating (or verifying with MFA if implemented).

Affected configurations

• jenzabar internet campus solution (<= 9.0.1) • jenzabar internet campus solution (>= 9.1.0 <= 9.1.2) • jenzabar internet campus solution (>= 9.2.0 <= 9.2.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-384 Session Fixation weakness

References