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CVE-2018-12071

No known exploitation. EPSS puts it in the 74th percentile. Fixed versions are out.

CVSS 3.09.8CriticalEPSS percentile74th1.5% chance in 30 daysCISA KEVNot listedNo confirmed exploitation
No public exploit knownFix2 products2 fixed builds listed below

Published Updated Sources: CVE.org, NVD, GitHub

NVD CVE.org

What to do

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  • Packagist codeigniter/frameworkAffected: < 3.1.10Upgrade to: 3.1.10Stated by: GitHub advisory
  • CodeigniterAffected: < 3.1.9Upgrade to: 3.1.9Stated by: NVD

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What it is

From the CVE record

A Session Fixation issue exists in CodeIgniter before 3.1.9 because session.use_strict_mode in the Session Library was mishandled.

In plain language

No plain-language summary for this CVE yet.

Exploitation

Where each signal puts this CVE on the scale from published to confirmed exploited.

EPSS74th
CISA KEV

Not in the catalog. CISA has not confirmed exploitation.

Public exploits

No public exploit or proof of concept found in the sources we track.

EPSS

1.5% chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the 74th percentile of scored CVEs.

Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST.org. A probability, not a confirmation.

Lifecycle

5 events over 2549 days, from the signal feeds we watch.

  1. Patch availablerecord updated
  2. Publishedweakness classified, att&ck mapped

Affected products

And 1 more affected product. See all after sign-in

Technical detail

CVSS 3.0 vector

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CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Scored 9.8 by NVD.

How it is reached

  • Attack Vector NetworkExploitable remotely over the network without any special conditions
  • Attack Complexity LowNo special conditions — the attack can be reliably reproduced
  • Privileges Required NoneNo authentication required — anyone can exploit this
  • User Interaction NoneNo user interaction needed — fully automated exploitation

Scope

  • Scope UnchangedImpact is limited to the vulnerable component itself

Impact if exploited

  • Confidentiality HighTotal information disclosure — all data in the component is compromised
  • Integrity HighTotal loss of integrity — attacker can modify any data in the component
  • Availability HighTotal denial of service — the component is completely unavailable

Weaknesses

ATT&CK techniques

Mapped from the weaknesses above (CWE to ATT&CK), not observed in attacks.

Sources

References in the record

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