Session Fixation and Insufficient Session Expiration - CVE-2021-46279

CVE-2021-46279

Summary

Session fixation and insufficient session expiration vulnerabilities allow an attacker to perfom session hijacking attacks against users.

Impact

An un-authenticated remote attacker would be able to impersonate other users and access the BMC web application under their privileges for potentially an indefinite amount of time.

Issue Date

October 21, 2022

Affects

The vulnerability affects: Lanner Inc IAC-AST2500A standard firmware version 1.10.0

CVE Name

CVE-2021-46279

CVSS Details

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

CVSS Score

5.8

Solution

Updated BMC firmware versions that fix the issue are available from Lanner technical support

Mitigations

Acknowledgements

Andrea Palanca of Nozomi Networks

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