CVE-2026-38968

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Source

https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-38968

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-38968.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-38968

Downstream

Published

2026-07-02T00:00:00Z

Modified

2026-10-28T11:12:20Z

Severity

9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator

Summary

[none]

Details

ntopng through 6.6 is vulnerable to Predictable Session Identifier which can lead to Session Hijacking. HTTP session identifiers in src/HTTPserver.cpp use weak time-seeded pseudo-randomness during session creation. As a result, fresh authenticated logins can receive deterministic or colliding session cookies under attacker-controlled timing.

Database specific

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}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/ntop/ntopng

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/ntop/ntopng

Events

Introduced

Fixed

14e22497233dc7d31d19dccb74b13bb073d16c2c

Fixed

179a346ceb6239fd36128ccca3efa8f9ea61eeb5

Database specific

Show details

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Affected versions

2.*

2.4

3.*

3.0

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-38968.json"

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vanir_signatures_modified

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