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Key: MODPYTHON-135
Type: Bug Bug
Status: Closed Closed
Resolution: Fixed
Priority: Major Major
Assignee: Jim Gallacher
Reporter: Graham Dumpleton
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[SECURITY] A Security Issue with FileSession in 3.2.7

Created: 17/Feb/06 01:32 PM   Updated: 09/Oct/09 11:46 PM
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Component/s: session
Affects Version/s: 3.2.7
Fix Version/s: 3.2.8, 3.3.1

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Resolution Date: 06/Mar/06 02:47 AM


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As announced on the mailing list:

  http://www.modpython.org/pipermail/mod_python/2006-February/020284.html

If you are using the recently released mod_python 3.2.7 please beware that a
security issue was discovered in the FileSession code.

You are vulnerable only if you are using mod_python 3.2.7 AND you are using
FileSession to keep sessions. FileSession is new in 3.2.7 and is not enabled by
default, therefore if you are using mod_python Session in its default
configuration you are not vulnerable.

The extent of this vulnerability is limited. Only a user who already has an
account (or some ability to write to the filesystem) on the system running
httpd could exploit it, and to the best of our knowledge such a user could
potentially cause httpd to execute arbitrary code.

We are working on a security release of the next version of mod_python and
expect it to be out shortly. Until then, please do not use FileSession.


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