CVE Catalog

CVE-2006-0411

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Claroline 1.7.2 uses guessable session cookies (MD5 hash of connection time), allowing remote attackers to hijack sessions and potentially gain administrative privileges.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can hijack an administrator session, gaining full control over the e-learning platform, leading to data theft, content modification, or further attacks.

Recommendation

Immediately upgrade Claroline to the latest version and change the session cookie generation mechanism to a secure one, e.g., using cryptographically random values.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

claro_init_local.inc.php in Claroline 1.7.2 uses guessable session cookies (MD5 hash of connection time), which allows remote attackers to hijack sessions and possibly gain administrative privileges.

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