Security Advisory SA23137 - Crystal Reports Predictable Session Identifier Security Issue

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Secunia Advisory SA23137

Crystal Reports Predictable Session Identifier Security Issue

Secunia Advisory

SA23137

Release Date

2006-11-29

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Criticality level

Moderately critical

Impact

Hijacking

Where

From remote

Authentication level

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Report reliability

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

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Remediation status

Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI

Automated scanning

Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI

Software:

Crystal Reports 10.x

Crystal Reports 9.x

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2006-4099 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

MWR Infosecurity has reported a security issue in Crystal Reports, which can be exploited by malicious people to hijack user sessions.

The security issue is caused due to predictable session identifiers stored in cookies.

The security issue is reported in the following versions:
* Crystal Enterprise 9
* Crystal Enterprise 10

The following versions are reportedly not affected:
* Business Objects XI
* Business Objects XIr2

Solution
Crystal Reports 10:
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers

Provided and/or discovered by
LB Jennings, M Ruks, and HMG Grobbelaar of MWR Infosecurity

Original Advisory
http://www.uniras.gov.uk/niscc/docs/re-20061128-00818.pdf

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