🛡️ CVE-2022-27305 — gibbon

🟠 CVSS 8.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-384 NVD
8.8
CVSS Score
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Description

Gibbon v23 does not generate a new session ID cookie after a user authenticates, making the application vulnerable to session fixation.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-27305 is classified as CWE-384: Session Fixation. A session identifier is not renewed at login, so an identifier planted beforehand becomes an authenticated session.

Affected software

CVE-2022-27305 is recorded against 1 package.

  • gibbon (fixed in 23.0.02)

Timeline and source

Published on 25 May 2022 and last revised on 9 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-384
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-05-25
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-07-09

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
gibbon 23.0.02

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