CVE-2018-17199
httpd: mod_session_cookie does not respect expiry time
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.0
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Published · January 22, 2019
Updated · November 2, 2026
Description
In Apache HTTP Server 2.4 release 2.4.37 and prior, mod_session checks the session expiry time before decoding the session. This causes session expiry time to be ignored for mod_session_cookie sessions since the expiry time is loaded when the session is decoded.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.0 · 5.4CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE-613 · DEPRECATED: Insufficient Session Expiration