Asterisk Predictable Session IDs May Let Remote Users Hijack HTTP Manager Sessions
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1019679
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id?1019679
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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-1390
(Links to External Site)
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Date: Mar 20 2008
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Impact: User access via network
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Fix Available: Yes
Vendor Confirmed: Yes
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Version(s): 1.4.x prior to 1.4.19-rc3, 1.6.x prior to 1.6.0-beta6
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Description: A vulnerability was reported in Asterisk. A remote user may be able to hijack HTTP Manager sessions.
Manager session IDs are calculated in a manner that greatly reduces the number of guesses a remote user must make to predict the ID numbers.
The vendor was notified on February 25, 2008.
Dino A. Dai Zovi reported this vulnerability.
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Impact: A remote user may be able to hijack a web management session.
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Solution: The vendor has issued a fix (1.4.19-rc3, 1.6.0-beta6).
The vendor's advisory is available at:
http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2008-005.html
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Vendor URL: downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2008-005.html (Links to External Site)
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Cause: Randomization error
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Underlying OS: Linux (Any), UNIX (Any)
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Message History:
None.
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Source Message Contents
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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:05:20 -0500
Subject: Asterisk
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http://downloads.digium.com/pub/security/AST-2008-005.html
CVE-2008-1390
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