Bug 2502072 (CVE-2026-9323) - CVE-2026-9323 urwid: Urwid: Predictable session IDs lead to remote code execution and information disclosure
Summary: CVE-2026-9323 urwid: Urwid: Predictable session IDs lead to remote code execu...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-9323
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 2502745 2502746 2502747 2502748
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2026-07-18 15:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-07-20 12:38 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-07-18 15:01:31 UTC
The urwid web display backend (urwid/display/web.py) generates web session identifiers (urwid_id) in Screen.start() by concatenating two random.randrange(10**9) calls that use Python's Mersenne Twister PRNG, which is not cryptographically secure. Each call consumes approximately 30 bits of PRNG state, and the Mersenne Twister internal state is approximately 19,937 bits, so an attacker who observes approximately 334 session IDs (for example via the X-Urwid-ID HTTP response header) can fully reconstruct the internal state and predict all past and future session IDs (Path B). The same identifier is also used as the filename of a FIFO created in the world-listable /tmp directory (for example /tmp/urwid375487765176907690.in), so any local user on the host can list /tmp to enumerate active session tokens directly (Path A). With a valid session ID, an attacker can read the victim's terminal screen via the polling endpoint, inject keystrokes into the victim's session (yielding OS-level code execution with the session owner's privileges if the session runs a shell), and inject exit sequences or flood the FIFO to terminate or crash the session. A prior Bandit S311 warning on this usage was suppressed with # noqa: S311 rather than fixed


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