CVE-2018-10240
mediumpriority · track · 29EPSS 0.010 · 63 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
SolarWinds Serv-U MFT before 15.1.6 HFv1 assigns authenticated users a low-entropy session token that can be included in requests to the application as a URL parameter in lieu of a session cookie. This session token's value can be brute-forced by an attacker to obtain the corresponding session cookie and hijack the user's session.
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Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5–7.3
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affected products (2)
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references (4)
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- https://www.bishopfox.com/news/2018/05/solarwinds-serv-u-managed-file-transfer-insufficient-session-id-entropy/cnnvd
- https://www.solarwinds.com/Patchcnnvd
- https://www.bishopfox.com/news/2018/05/solarwinds-serv-u-managed-file-transfer-insufficient-session-id-entropy/enisa_euvd
- https://www.bishopfox.com/news/2018/05/solarwinds-serv-u-managed-file-transfer-insufficient-session-id-entropy/Third Party Advisorynvd
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