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Laravel Hijacked authentication cookies vulnerability

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 15, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated May 15, 2024

Package

composer illuminate/auth (Composer)

Affected versions

>= 4.0.0, < 4.1.26

Patched versions

4.1.26

Description

Laravel 4.1.26 introduces security improvements for "remember me" cookies. Before this update, if a remember cookie was hijacked by another malicious user, the cookie would remain valid for a long period of time, even after the true owner of the account reset their password, logged out, etc.

This change requires the addition of a new remember_token column to your users (or equivalent) database table. After this change, a fresh token will be assigned to the user each time they login to your application. The token will also be refreshed when the user logs out of the application. The implications of this change are: if a "remember me" cookie is hijacked, simply logging out of the application will invalidate the cookie.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 15, 2024
Reviewed May 15, 2024
Last updated May 15, 2024

Severity

Moderate

Weaknesses

CVE ID

No known CVE

GHSA ID

GHSA-q4xf-7fw5-4x8v

Source code

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