| Graham Dumpleton (JIRA) 2006-02-17, 11:10 pm |
| [SECURITY] A Security Issue with FileSession in 3.2.7
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Key: MODPYTHON-135
URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MODPYTHON-135
Project: mod_python
Type: Bug
Components: session
Versions: 3.2
Reporter: Graham Dumpleton
As announced on the mailing list:
http://www.modpython.org/pipermail/...ary/020284.html
If you are using the recently released mod_python 3.2.7 please beware that a
security issue was discovered in the FileSession code.
You are vulnerable only if you are using mod_python 3.2.7 AND you are using
FileSession to keep sessions. FileSession is new in 3.2.7 and is not enabled by
default, therefore if you are using mod_python Session in its default
configuration you are not vulnerable.
The extent of this vulnerability is limited. Only a user who already has an
account (or some ability to write to the filesystem) on the system running
httpd could exploit it, and to the best of our knowledge such a user could
potentially cause httpd to execute arbitrary code.
We are working on a security release of the next version of mod_python and
expect it to be out shortly. Until then, please do not use FileSession.
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