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Nextcloud · Report #1181962

Session fixation on public talk links

Validstatus
mediumseverity
$100bounty
23upvotes
16 Jun 2021disclosed

How it was found

  1. userA shares a talk room and protects it with a password
  2. userB opens links but doesn't enter the password yet
  3. Attacker steals the cookies from userB
  4. userB logs in
  5. attacker is now also able to read the conversation etc

Impact

In short the attacker is able to take over the session of the guest userB on this talk room.

The session id should be renewed once the password is entered.

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