Bug 1668493 (CVE-2018-17199)

Summary:	CVE-2018-17199 httpd: mod_session_cookie does not respect expiry time
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Laura Pardo <lpardo>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Maryna Nalbandian <mnalband>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	abhgupta, akaiser, dbaker, fhirtz, hhorak, huzaifas, jorton, krathod, luhliari, rfreire, security-response-team, sthangav, suarora, trankin, twalsh, yozone
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OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	1668494, 1677496, 1677498, 1677590
Bug Blocks:	1668499

Description Laura Pardo 2019-01-22 21:21:11 UTC

In Apache HTTP Server 2.4.0 to 2.4.37, mod_session checks the session expiry time before decoding the session. This causes session expiry time to be ignored for mod_session_cookie sessions since the expiry time is loaded when the session is decoded.


References:
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2019/q1/81
https://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_24.html

Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2019-01-22 21:21:22 UTC

Created httpd tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1668494]

Comment 17 Timothy Walsh 2019-07-25 12:50:10 UTC

A review of this flaw was conducted and has been allocated a revised score to reflect the potential for exploiting session information when specific conditions are met.

Comment 25 errata-xmlrpc 2019-11-20 16:08:32 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Core Services

Via RHSA-2019:3935 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3935

Comment 26 errata-xmlrpc 2019-11-20 16:13:20 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7

Via RHSA-2019:3933 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3933

Comment 27 errata-xmlrpc 2019-11-20 16:20:59 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  JBoss Core Services on RHEL 6

Via RHSA-2019:3932 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3932

Comment 28 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-11-20 18:51:13 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-17199

Comment 29 errata-xmlrpc 2019-12-10 07:57:11 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 EUS

Via RHSA-2019:4126 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4126

Comment 30 errata-xmlrpc 2020-03-31 19:24:50 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2020:1121 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1121

Comment 31 errata-xmlrpc 2021-05-18 15:15:01 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2021:1809 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1809