Improper Access Control Affecting traffic_server package, versions [6.0.0,6.2.3)[7.0.0,7.1.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.02% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TRAFFICSERVER-2382193
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed29 Aug 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Aug 2018

CVE-2018-8040  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade traffic_server to version 6.2.3, 7.1.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Access Control. Pages that are rendered using the ESI plugin can have access to the cookie header when the plugin is configured not to allow access. This affects Apache Traffic Server (ATS) versions 6.0.0 to 6.2.2 and 7.0.0 to 7.1.3. To resolve this issue users running 6.x should upgrade to 6.2.3 or later versions and 7.x users should upgrade to 7.1.4 or later versions.

CVSS Scores

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