CVE-2020-5205

Session fixation attack in Pow (Hex package)

Published Jan 9, 2020 CVSS 3.1 · 6.5 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
In Pow (Hex package) before 1.0.16, the use of Plug.Session in Pow.Plug.Session is susceptible to session fixation attacks if a persistent session store is used for Plug.Session, such as Redis or a database. Cookie store, which is used in most Phoenix apps, doesn't have this vulnerability.

Remediation

Vendor Workaround

Call Plug.Conn.configure_session(conn, renew: true) periodically and after privilege change. A custom authorization plug can be written where the create/3 method should return the conn only after Plug.Conn.configure_session/2 have been called on it.

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-1831 In Pow (Hex package) before 1.0.16, the use of Plug.Session in Pow.Plug.Session is susceptible to session fixation attacks if a persistent session store is used for Plug.Session, such as Redis or a database. Cookie store, which is used in most Phoenix apps, doesn't have this vulnerability.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-v2wf-c3j6-wpvw Session fixation
History

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Weaknesses

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Aug 4, 2024, 8:22 AM
Reserved
Jan 2, 2020, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jan 9, 2020, 2:15 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 3:21 AM