CVE-2017-6807

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-03-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

mod_auth_mellon before 0.13.1 is vulnerable to a Cross-Site Session Transfer attack, where a user with access to one web site running on a server can copy their session cookie to a different web site on the same server to get access to that site.

Affected products

uninett mod_auth_mellon: through 0.13.0

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96843
https://github.com/UNINETT/mod_auth_mellon/releases/tag/v0.13.1
https://sympa.uninett.no/lists/uninett.no/arc/modmellon/2017-03/msg00008.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96843
https://github.com/UNINETT/mod_auth_mellon/releases/tag/v0.13.1
https://sympa.uninett.no/lists/uninett.no/arc/modmellon/2017-03/msg00008.html

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