Jenzabar JICS (aka Internet Campus Solution) before 9.0.1 Patch 3, 9.1 before 9.1.2 Patch…
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Spoofing
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-384.
Summary
Jenzabar JICS (aka Internet Campus Solution) before 9.0.1 Patch 3, 9.1 before 9.1.2 Patch 2, and 9.2 before 9.2.2 Patch 8 has session cookies that are a deterministic function of the username. There is a hard-coded password to supply a PBKDF feeding into AES to encrypt a username and base64 encode it to a client-side cookie for persistent session authentication. By knowing the key and algorithm, an attacker can select any username, encrypt it, base64 encode it, and save it in their browser with the correct JICSLoginCookie cookie format to impersonate any real user in the JICS database without the need for authenticating (or verifying with MFA if implemented).
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | all versions | — | No fix listed | CNA |
- — Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2020-8434
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-xxqg-cq6p-jpqq
References
More Jenzabar Internet Campus Solution vulnerabilities
- TI-2019-07347 ICS/StaticPages/AddTestUsers.aspx in Jenzabar JICS (aka Internet Campus Solution) before… CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2019-07348 Jenzabar JICS (aka Internet Campus Solution) before 9 allows remote attackers to upload… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
Sources
- CVE-2020-8434 · CVE Program
- CVE-2020-8434 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-xxqg-cq6p-jpqq · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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