CVE-2020-0621 - Insufficient Session Expiration

Severity

44%

Complexity

8%

Confidentiality

60%

A security feature bypass vulnerability exists in Windows 10 when third party filters are called during a password update, aka 'Windows Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability'.

A security feature bypass vulnerability exists in Windows 10 when third party filters are called during a password update, aka 'Windows Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability'.

CVSS 3.1 Base Score 4.4. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Demo Examples

Insufficient Session Expiration

CWE-613

The following snippet was taken from a J2EE web.xml deployment descriptor in which the session-timeout parameter is explicitly defined (the default value depends on the container). In this case the value is set to -1, which means that a session will never expire.


               
</web-app>
</session-config>
<session-timeout>-1</session-timeout>

Overview

Type

Microsoft Windows

First reported 5 years ago

2020-01-14 23:15:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2020-01-17 18:24:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Windows 10 1709

1709

Microsoft Windows 10 1803

1803

Microsoft Windows 10 1809

1809

Microsoft Windows Server 2016 1803

1803

Microsoft Windows Server 2019

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