A vulnerability has been identified in Business Objects Crystal Enterprise, which could be exploited by remote attackers to bypass security restrictions. This flaw is due to a design error where generated session identifiers are easily predictable, which could be exploited by remote unauthenticated attackers to hijack a user's session and gain unauthorized access to a vulnerable application by manipulating the "WSCID" cookie value.
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Vulnerability reported by MWR InfoSecurity
ChangeLog
2006-11-28 : Initial release
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