Insufficient Session Expiration Affecting aiohttp-session package, versions [,2.7.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (40th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-AIOHTTPSESSION-72728
  • published24 Dec 2018
  • disclosed11 Oct 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-1000814  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-613  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade aiohttp-session to version 2.7.0 or higher.

Overview

aiohttp-session provides sessions for aiohttp.web.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insufficient Session Expiration via the EncryptedCookieStorage and NaClCookieStorage functions that can result in Non-expiring sessions / Infinite lifespan. This attack appear to be exploitable via Recreation of a cookie post-expiry with the same value.

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