Advisories

http-cache-semantics through 4.2.0 Cross-User Cache Disclosure via max-stale

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severity
high
date
Affecting
  • http-cache-semantics <= 4.2.0

CWE
  • CWE-524 Use of Cache Containing Sensitive Information
CVSS
8.7
CVSS V4 Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Credit
Wayde Shi (PayPal Cyber Security Team)
Description
http-cache-semantics through 4.2.0 fails to properly validate security-zeroed cache entries when processing client max-stale directives, allowing unauthenticated attackers to retrieve cached responses belonging to other users. Attackers can request the same URL with a large max-stale value to obtain another user's Set-Cookie session credentials from shared-cache entries that were deliberately zeroed for security reasons.

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