CWE-488
Exposure of Data Element to Wrong Session
The product does not sufficiently enforce boundaries between the states of different sessions, causing data to be provided to, or used by, the wrong session.
CVE-2024-5148 (GCVE-0-2024-5148)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-09-02 11:03
Modified
2025-07-05 04:47
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CWE
- CWE-488 - Exposure of Data Element to Wrong Session
Summary
A flaw was found in the gnome-remote-desktop package. The gnome-remote-desktop system daemon performs inadequate validation of session agents using D-Bus methods related to transitioning a client connection from the login screen to the user session. As a result, the system RDP TLS certificate and key can be exposed to unauthorized users. This flaw allows a malicious user on the system to take control of the RDP client connection during the login screen-to-user session transition.
References
| ▼ | URL | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-5148 | vdb-entry, x_refsource_REDHAT | |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2282003 | issue-tracking, x_refsource_REDHAT | |
| https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-remote-desktop/-/issues/196 |
Impacted products
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Version: 46.alpha < 46.2 |
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Mitigation
Phase: Architecture and Design
Description:
- Protect the application's sessions from information leakage. Make sure that a session's data is not used or visible by other sessions.
Mitigation
Phase: Testing
Description:
- Use a static analysis tool to scan the code for information leakage vulnerabilities (e.g. Singleton Member Field).
Mitigation
Phase: Architecture and Design
Description:
- In a multithreading environment, storing user data in Servlet member fields introduces a data access race condition. Do not use member fields to store information in the Servlet.
CAPEC-59: Session Credential Falsification through Prediction
This attack targets predictable session ID in order to gain privileges. The attacker can predict the session ID used during a transaction to perform spoofing and session hijacking.
CAPEC-60: Reusing Session IDs (aka Session Replay)
This attack targets the reuse of valid session ID to spoof the target system in order to gain privileges. The attacker tries to reuse a stolen session ID used previously during a transaction to perform spoofing and session hijacking. Another name for this type of attack is Session Replay.