Man-in-the-middle attack in Tryton - CVE-2018-19443
Published: December 22, 2018 / Updated: December 24, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU16670
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-19443
CWE-ID: CWE-300
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Python.org
Affected software:
Tryton
Tryton
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to conduct man-in-the-middle attack.
The vulnerability exists due to the application tries to make a connection to the bus in cleartext instead of encrypted under certain circumstances in bus.py and jsonrpc.py. A remote attacker can use man-in-the-middle techniques and stole the user's session.
How to mitigate CVE-2018-19443
Update to version 5.0.1.