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GHSA-96c6-m98x-hxjx Zend-Session session validation vulnerability

MEDIUM Published 2024-06-07 Modified 2024-06-07 Official page ↗
Ecosystem
Packagist
Packages
zendframework/zend-session
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-384
Reviewed
2024-06-07

Affected packages

• Packagist zendframework/zend-session: >= 2.0.0, < 2.2.9 → fixed in 2.2.9 • Packagist zendframework/zend-session: >= 2.3.0, < 2.3.4 → fixed in 2.3.4

Description

`Zend\Session` session validators do not work as expected if set prior to the start of a session. For instance, the following test case fails (where $this->manager is an instance of `Zend\Session\SessionManager`): ``` $this ->manager ->getValidatorChain() ->attach('session.validate', array(new RemoteAddr(), 'isValid')); $this->manager->start(); $this->assertSame( array( 'Zend\Session\Validator\RemoteAddr' =3D> '', ), $_SESSION['__ZF']['_VALID'] ); ``` The implication is that subsequent calls to `Zend\Session\SessionManager#start()` (in later requests, assuming a session was created) will not have any validator metadata attached, which causes any validator metadata to be re-built from scratch, thus marking the session as valid. An attacker is thus able to simply ignore session validators such as `RemoteAddr` or `HttpUserAgent`, since the "signature" that these validators check against is not being stored in the session.

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-384 Session Fixation weakness

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