CVE-2020-15679

Summary

CVECVE-2020-15679
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-12-22 20:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-12-29 19:16:00 UTC
DescriptionAn OAuth session fixation vulnerability existed in the VPN login flow, where an attacker could craft a custom login URL, convince a VPN user to login via that URL, and obtain authenticated access as that user. This issue is limited to cases where attacker and victim are sharing the same source IP and could allow the ability to view session states and disconnect VPN sessions. This vulnerability affects Mozilla VPN iOS 1.0.7 < (929), Mozilla VPN Windows < 1.2.2, and Mozilla VPN Android 1.1.0 < (1360).

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-384

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mozilla Vpn All All All All
Application Mozilla Vpn All All All All
Application Mozilla Vpn All All All All
Application Mozilla Vpn All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
New non-polling authentication flow. · mozilla-mobile/guardian-vpn-android@981c840 · GitHub MISC github.com
PGAND-410 Resolve oauth session fixation on iOS (#272) · mozilla-mobile/guardian-vpn-ios@4309f5c · GitHub MISC github.com
New non-polling authentication flow. · mozilla-services/guardian-vpn-windows-deprecated@ac6f562 · GitHub MISC github.com
OAuth session fixation vulnerability in Mozilla VPN — Mozilla MISC www.mozilla.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 630670 Mozilla VPN For Android and iOS OAuth Session Fixation Vulnerability (MFSA2020-48)

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