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CVE-2017-5831

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-03-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-384

Description

Session fixation vulnerability in the forgot password mechanism in Revive Adserver before 4.0.1, when setting a new password, allows remote attackers to hijack web sessions via the session ID.

Affected products

• Revive Adserver: through 4.0.0

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/02/3
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95875
• https://www.revive-adserver.com/security/revive-sa-2017-001/
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/02/3
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95875
• https://www.revive-adserver.com/security/revive-sa-2017-001/

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