Insecure Cookie Transmission in PCS Daemon (pcsd)

CVE-2015-1848 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

The pcs daemon (pcsd) in PCS 0.9.137 and earlier does not set the secure flag for a cookie in an https session, which makes it easier for remote attackers to capture this cookie by intercepting its transmission within an http session. NOTE: this issue was SPLIT per ADT2 due to different vulnerability types. CVE-2015-3983 is for the issue with not setting the HTTPOnly flag.

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