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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2020-5205 EUVD-2022-1831GHSA-v2wf-c3j6-wpvw

Session fixation attack in Pow (Hex package)

Published Jan 9, 2020 · Updated Aug 4, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
danschultzer Pow < 1.0.16 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Hex pow < 1.0.16 1.0.16 GHSA-v2wf-c3j6-wpvw

References