CVE-2009-0256

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-01-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-287

Description

Session fixation vulnerability in the authentication library in TYPO3 4.0.0 through 4.0.9, 4.1.0 through 4.1.7, and 4.2.0 through 4.2.3 allows remote attackers to hijack web sessions via unspecified vectors related to (1) frontend and (2) backend authentication.

Affected products

typo3: 4.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.0.5 (+18)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/33617
http://secunia.com/advisories/33679
http://typo3.org/teams/security/security-bulletins/typo3-sa-2009-001/
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1711
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33376
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48133
http://secunia.com/advisories/33617
http://secunia.com/advisories/33679
http://typo3.org/teams/security/security-bulletins/typo3-sa-2009-001/
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1711
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33376
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/48133

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