F5 NGINX OpenID Connect session fixiation

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in F5 NGINX OpenID Connect, NGINX Instance Manager, NGINX API Connectivity Manager and NGINX Ingress Controller. This impacts an unknown function. Performing a manipulation results in session fixiation. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2024-10318. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in F5 NGINX OpenID Connect, NGINX Instance Manager, NGINX API Connectivity Manager and NGINX Ingress Controller (affected version unknown). This affects an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a session fixiation vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-384. Authenticating a user, or otherwise establishing a new user session, without invalidating any existing session identifier gives an attacker the opportunity to steal authenticated sessions. This is going to have an impact on integrity. The summary by CVE is:

A session fixation issue was discovered in the NGINX OpenID Connect reference implementation, where a nonce was not checked at login time. This flaw allows an attacker to fix a victim's session to an attacker-controlled account. As a result, although the attacker cannot log in as the victim, they can force the session to associate it with the attacker-controlled account, leading to potential misuse of the victim's session.

The weakness was disclosed by Christian August Holm Hansen as K000148232. It is possible to read the advisory at my.f5.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-10318 since 10/23/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Web Server

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• F5

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• NGINX API Connectivity Manager
• NGINX Ingress Controller
• NGINX Instance Manager
• NGINX OpenID Connect

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://f5.com/

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