CVE-2018-10966 - An issue was discovered in GamerPolls 0.4.6, related to config/environments/all.js and config/initializers/02_passport.js

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An issue was discovered in GamerPolls 0.4.6, related to config/environments/all.js and config/initializers/02_passport.js

Published Jun 5, 2018

7.3

HIGH

CVSS 3.0

EPSS 1.61%

Description

An issue was discovered in GamerPolls 0.4.6, related to config/environments/all.js and config/initializers/02_passport.js. An attacker can edit the Passport.js contents of the session cookie to contain the ID number of the account they wish to take over, and re-sign it using the hard coded secret.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-798

Hard-coded Credentials

References (3)

https://github.com/GamerPolls/gamerpolls.com/blob/03ccbaf219410e0a45390d0efc12017f08a25282/config/environments/all.js#L58
x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/GamerPolls/gamerpolls.com/pull/56
x_refsource_MISCPatchThird Party Advisory
https://www.digitalinterruption.com/single-post/2018/06/04/Are-Your-Cookies-Telling-Your-Fortune
x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
https://github.com/GamerPolls/gamerpolls.com/blob/03ccbaf219410e0a45390d0efc12017f08a25282/config/environments/all.js#L58		x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/GamerPolls/gamerpolls.com/pull/56		x_refsource_MISCPatchThird Party Advisory
https://www.digitalinterruption.com/single-post/2018/06/04/Are-Your-Cookies-Telling-Your-Fortune		x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Jun 5, 2018

Updated Aug 5, 2024

Reserved May 10, 2018

Link CVE-2018-10966

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2018-10966

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2018-10966