CVE Catalog

CVE-2006-4099

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Business Objects Crystal Enterprise versions 9 and 10 generate predictable session identifiers. A remote attacker can hijack other users' sessions by guessing WCSID cookie values.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can hijack active user sessions, gaining access to data and functions available within those sessions, potentially leading to confidentiality and integrity breaches.

Recommendation

Update Business Objects Crystal Enterprise to a version that does not generate predictable session identifiers, or implement additional session protection mechanisms (e.g., random tokens, IP restrictions).

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Business Objects Crystal Enterprise 9 and 10 generates predictable session identifiers, which allows remote attackers to hijack sessions of other users via WCSID cookie values.

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