Session hijacking via predictable HMAC cookie secret
Published May 3, 2025 · Updated Oct 20, 2025
Session cookie forgery in Mojolicious from 0.999922 allows remote authenticated users to tamper with or hijack application sessions. The secrets attribute defaults to the application moniker, and signed session cookies use that predictable value as the HMAC-SHA1 key. Exploitation requires a signed cookie and knowledge or a correct guess of the default secret; a forged cookie can rewrite session data or impersonate another session.
Summary
What happened
Session cookie forgery in Mojolicious from 0.999922 allows remote authenticated users to tamper with or hijack application sessions. The secrets attribute defaults to the application moniker, and signed session cookies use that predictable value as the HMAC-SHA1 key. Exploitation requires a signed cookie and knowledge or a correct guess of the default secret; a forged cookie can rewrite session data or impersonate another session.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-58134
- Published
- May 3, 2025
- Updated
- Oct 20, 2025
- Vendor
- Mojolicious
- Product
- Mojolicious
- Classifications
- CWE-321, CWE-331, T1606.001
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- May 3, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Oct 20, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=0.999922 <=*
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Weakness, pattern, technique
Public exploit references
- Baking Mojolicious cookiesfunctional · demonstrated
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