Cross-site Scripting (XSS) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libapache2-mod-auth-mellon  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2010-LIBAPACHE2MODAUTHMELLON-1033564
  • published13 Mar 2017
  • disclosed13 Mar 2017

Introduced: 13 Mar 2017

CVE-2017-6807  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libapache2-mod-auth-mellon package and not the libapache2-mod-auth-mellon package as distributed by Ubuntu.

mod_auth_mellon before 0.13.1 is vulnerable to a Cross-Site Session Transfer attack, where a user with access to one web site running on a server can copy their session cookie to a different web site on the same server to get access to that site.