CVE-2018-12520

8.1
HIGHCVSS v3.1 Base Score
10.67%
LOW RiskEPSS (95th percentile)

An issue was discovered in ntopng 3.4 before 3.4.180617. The PRNG involved in the generation of session IDs is not seeded at program startup. This results in deterministic session IDs being allocated for active user sessions. An attacker with foreknowledge of the operating system and standard library in use by the host running the service and the username of the user whose session they're targeting can abuse the deterministic random number generation in order to hijack the user's session, thus escalating their access.

Published: 7/5/2018
Modified: 6/17/2026
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Vulnerability Summary

CVSS v3 Score

8.1HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2 Score

6.8

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS Score (Exploitation Probability)

10.67%LOW Exploitation Risk
95th percentile

This vulnerability has a 10.67% probability of being exploited in the next 30 days, ranking higher than 95% of all scored CVEs.

CWE Classification

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