CVE-2019-15955

Description

An issue was discovered in Total.js CMS 12.0.0. A low privilege user can perform a simple transformation of a cookie to obtain the random values inside it. If an attacker can discover a session cookie owned by an admin, then it is possible to brute force it with O(n)=2n instead of O(n)=n^x complexity, and steal the admin password.

Weakness classification

• CWE-327: Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm
• CWE-330: Use of Insufficiently Random Values

Primary references

• cve@mitre.org — Exploit, Third Party Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Exploit, Third Party Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory