CVE-2014-2875

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2020-02-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-307

Description

The session.lua library in CGILua 5.2 alpha 1 and 5.2 alpha 2 uses weak session IDs generated based on OS time, which allows remote attackers to hijack arbitrary sessions via a brute force attack. NOTE: CVE-2014-10399 and CVE-2014-10400 were SPLIT from this ID.

Affected products

Keplerproject Cgilua: from 5.0.0 through 5.0.1; from 5.1.0 through 5.1.4; 5.2-alpha1, 5.2-alpha2

References

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Apr/318
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/531981/100/0/threaded
http://www.syhunt.com/en/index.php?n=Advisories.Cgilua-weaksessionid
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Apr/318
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/531981/100/0/threaded
http://www.syhunt.com/en/index.php?n=Advisories.Cgilua-weaksessionid

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