CVE-2018-12520

Published Jul 5, 2018 CVSS 3.1 · 8.1 High EPSS 10.2% KEV · Not listed
Description
An issue was discovered in ntopng 3.4 before 3.4.180617. The PRNG involved in the generation of session IDs is not seeded at program startup. This results in deterministic session IDs being allocated for active user sessions. An attacker with foreknowledge of the operating system and standard library in use by the host running the service and the username of the user whose session they're targeting can abuse the deterministic random number generation in order to hijack the user's session, thus escalating their access.

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Source ID Title
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4842-1 ntopng vulnerability
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 5, 2024, 8:38 AM
Reserved
Jun 17, 2018, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jul 5, 2018, 8:29 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 1:37 AM