CVE-2005-4709 Auth bypass in n/a
Remote attackers can hijack session threads to assume the roles of previous clients due to improper cleanup of authentication credentials in JBoss EJB.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2005-4709?
CVE-2005-4709 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in n/a, published on 2 Feb 2006. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The popSubjectContext method in the SecurityAssociation class in JBoss Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) 3.0 RC3 maintains the threadPrincipal and threadCredential values from a previous client's authentication after termination of a client session, which allows remote attackers to gain the roles of an arbitrary previous client who had the same JBoss server thread.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-4709?
How do I fix CVE-2005-4709?
No fix has been published for CVE-2005-4709 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.
Is CVE-2005-4709 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2005-4709 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-7784-c7pr-562g.