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TI-2018-08982 Aliases CVE-2018-12520GHSA-mx87-47cg-9wpg

An issue was discovered in ntopng 3.4 before 3.4.180617.

Priority MEDIUM 48CWE-335Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
High
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · High
Fix status
No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA.

Summary

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.

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.10542 95th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Public exploit Yes 3 exploit referencesTagged by the CNA and NVD
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
——all versions—No fix listedCNA
  • — Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:ntop:ntopng:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*3.4 to before 3.4.180617Vulnerablentop
  • cpe:2.3:a:ntop:ntopng:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 3.4 to before 3.4.180617 Vulnerable ·ntop

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2018-12520
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-mx87-47cg-9wpg

References

Exploit 3

Patch 1

  • TI-2026-28235 ntopng through 6.6 is vulnerable to Predictable Session Identifier which can lead to… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2017-03496 Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in ntopng through 2.4 allows remote… CVSS 3.0HIGH 8.8
  • TI-2017-05107 The NetworkInterface::getHost function in NetworkInterface.cpp in ntopng before 3.0… CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2015-06889 ntopng (aka ntop) before 2.2 allows remote authenticated users to change the login… CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 6.0
  • TI-2017-05108 ntopng before 3.0 allows HTTP Response Splitting. CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2017-05069 ntopng before 3.0 allows XSS because GET and POST parameters are improperly validated. CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 6.1
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Sources

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