CVE-2006-4099 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Business Objects Crystal Enterprise 9 and 10 generates predictable session identifiers, which allows remote attackers to hijack sessions of other users via WCSID cookie values.

Published: 2006-11-29

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: 1.4% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:businessobjects:crystal_enterprise:9:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:businessobjects:crystal_enterprise:10:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2006-4091	Business Objects Crystal Enterprise 9 and 10 generates predictable session identifiers, which allows remote attackers to hijack sessions of other users via WCSID cookie values.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01414.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://secunia.com/advisories/23137
http://support.businessobjects.com/communityCS/FilesAndUpdates/ce10win_en.pdf
http://www.mwrinfosecurity.com/advisories/MWR_crystal-reports-weak-sessions-advisory_2006-11-28.pdf
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21350
http://www.uniras.gov.uk/niscc/docs/re-20061128-00818.pdf
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4748
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30568

History

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Subscriptions

Businessobjects Crystal Enterprise

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2006-11-29T17:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T18:57:45.459Z

Reserved: 2006-08-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-4099

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-11-29T17:28:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2006-4099

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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