CAPEC-61: Session Fixation

ID CAPEC-61
Typical Severity High
Likelihood Of Attack Medium
Status Draft

The attacker induces a client to establish a session with the target software using a session identifier provided by the attacker. Once the user successfully authenticates to the target software, the attacker uses the (now privileged) session identifier in their own transactions. This attack leverages the fact that the target software either relies on client-generated session identifiers or maintains the same session identifiers after privilege elevation.

https://capec.mitre.org/data/definitions/61.html

Weaknesses

# ID Name Type
CWE-384 Session Fixation weakness
CWE-664 Improper Control of a Resource Through its Lifetime weakness
CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource weakness

Taxonomiy Mapping

Type # ID Name
WASC 37 Session Fixation
OWASP Attacks Session fixation
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