CVE-2017-2589 Insecure cookie sharing in Hawtio
Shared cookie store in hawtio proxy allows attackers to hijack sessions of other users by accessing shared authentication cookies.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2017-2589?
CVE-2017-2589 is a high-severity vulnerability in Red Hat hawtio, published on 26 Jul 2018. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
It was discovered that the hawtio servlet 1.4 uses a single HttpClient instance to proxy requests with a persistent cookie store (cookies are stored locally and are not passed between the client and the end URL) which means all clients using that proxy are sharing the same cookies.
Weakness: CWE-285
Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-2589?
2 open source packages ship an affected version, including io.hawt:project. It affects 2 products.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
io.hawt:project Maven | All versions | 1.5.0 |
io.hawt:project Maven | All versions | 1.5.0 |
Products include Hawt Hawtio, Redhat Jboss Fuse.
How do I fix CVE-2017-2589?
Upgrade io.hawt:project to 1.5.0 or later.
Is CVE-2017-2589 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-2589 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Red Hat hawtio
Sources
Also known as GHSA-m4j5-hgqq-5jf2.