CVE-2020-11729 — An issue was discovered in DAViCal Andrew's Web Libraries (AWL) through 0

An issue was discovered in DAViCal Andrew's Web Libraries (AWL) through 0.60. Long-term session cookies, uses to provide long-term session continuity, are not generated securely, enabling a brute-force attack that may be successful.

01What is this vulnerability?

An issue was discovered in DAViCal Andrew's Web Libraries (AWL) through 0.60. Long-term session cookies, uses to provide long-term session continuity, are not generated securely, enabling a brute-force attack that may be successful.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2020-04-15T15:37:09.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-04T11:41:58.166Z

09References

• gitlab.com — https://gitlab.com/davical-project/awl/-/issues/18
• bugs.debian.org — https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=956650
• lists.debian.org — https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/04/msg00011.html
• www.debian.org — https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4660