CVE-2008-2970

HIGH 7.5CVE-2008-2970 · Published 02/07/2008 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2008-2970 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting academic web tools (yektaweb).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.4%, higher than 83.9% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
academic web tools yektaweb	`≤ 1.4.2.8≤ 1.4.3.1`	No fix yet

Description

Multiple session fixation vulnerabilities in Academic Web Tools (AWT YEKTA) 1.4.3.1, and 1.4.2.8 and earlier, allow remote attackers to hijack web sessions by setting the PHPSESSID parameter to (1) index.php and (2) login.php in homepg/.

References

securityreason.com/securityalert/3959
bugreport.ir
securityfocus.com/archive/1/493472/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com/bid/29813
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43179

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