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College Management System CVE-2026-95828

| EUVDEUVD-2026-84979 LOW
Session Fixation (CWE-384)
2026-09-22 VulDB GHSA-623f-gffw-g5rc
2.1
CVSS 4.0 · Vendor: VulDB
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Attacker obtains/plants known session ID
  2. Delivery
    Deliver crafted link to victim
  3. Exploit
    Victim authenticates without ID regeneration
  4. Execution
    Attacker reuses fixed session ID
  5. Impact
    Hijack authenticated session

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A07:2025 - Authentication Failures
ASVS 5.0
V7 - Session Management Session fixation prevention
Exploitation Conditions

Exploitation requires the victim to authenticate to the College-Management-System while using a session identifier the attacker controls or can predict, because server.php's session_start does not regenerate the session ID at login (CWE-384). The key limiting factor is required user interaction (UI:P/UI:R): the attacker cannot act alone and must trick a victim into logging in under the fixed session. No attacker authentication is needed (PR:N), and the attack is remote over the network, but success is contingent on the victim completing an authenticated login through the attacker-influenced session.

Impact

This is a low-priority, high-noise finding. The vendor CVSS 4.0 base score is 2.1 (AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N), reflecting a network-reachable but user-interaction-gated session fixation flaw with only limited confidentiality impact and no integrity/availability impact. The E:P (Proof-of-Concept) exploit maturity is consistent with the input signal that POC/exploit code is publicly available - here that 'exploit' is simply the GitHub issue report (#8) describing the flaw, not a weaponized tool. There is no CISA KEV listing and no EPSS score provided, so there is no evidence of active or widespread exploitation. Exploitation status: publicly available exploit code exists (a public issue write-up), but this must NOT be conflated with active exploitation. The affected software (Mstfakts College-Management-System) is an obscure single-author GitHub project with no meaningful enterprise footprint, further reducing real-world risk. Note a data caveat: the project uses rolling releases, so no affected/fixed version boundaries exist, and the maintainer has not responded to the report - meaning no patch is confirmed available.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An attacker crafts a link to the application containing a session identifier they already know (or induces the app to accept a fixed session ID before login), then lures a victim to authenticate through that link. Because server.php's session_start does not regenerate the session ID upon authentication, the victim's now-authenticated session is bound to the attacker-known ID, allowing the attacker to reuse it and impersonate the victim. A public write-up of the issue exists (GitHub issue #8), but no automated weaponized exploit is indicated.

Monitor Track and reassess. Why: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9).
No patch listed yet 0.7% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Sep 22, 2026

Session fixation in Mstfakts College-Management-System (Front-end/server.php) allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to plant a session identifier that the application fails to regenerate at login, so the attacker inherits the victim's authenticated session once the victim signs in. Exploitation hinges on user interaction - the victim must complete an authenticated login through the attacker-influenced session - which is the main limiting factor in an otherwise trivially reachable flaw, and the assessed impact is limited to low confidentiality and integrity loss with no availability effect (CVSS 3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N; vendor/NVD base 2.1). Publicly available exploit code exists (referenced from the project's GitHub issue #8), but there is no evidence of active exploitation; this is a low-priority, high-noise finding.

RemediationAI

No vendor-released patch identified at time of analysis: the maintainers were notified through GitHub issue #8 (https://github.com/Mstfakts/College-Management-System/issues/8) and have not responded, and the rolling-release model means there is no fixed version to upgrade to, so operators must remediate the code themselves if they run this project. The correct fix is to call session_regenerate_id(true) immediately after successful credential validation in Front-end/server.php (and to destroy/unset the pre-authentication session data at logout) so that a planted identifier cannot survive the login boundary; this is a one-line change but must be tested against the existing login and redirect flow, because regenerating the ID invalidates old cookies and can log out users whose clients cache the session value. Until that change is deployed, treat compensating controls as the primary defense: harden the session cookie with HttpOnly, Secure and SameSite=Strict/Lax so a third party cannot overwrite the cookie from a sibling origin, accept session identifiers only from the cookie and not from GET/POST parameters, bind the session to a stable client attribute such as user agent plus source address, shorten session lifetime and require re-authentication for sensitive actions, and restrict or WAF-filter access to Front-end/server.php to expected sources; each of these reduces but does not eliminate the fixation window, and the cookie-attribute and binding controls can break legitimate users behind proxies or with rotating client attributes. References: https://github.com/Mstfakts/College-Management-System/, https://vuldb.com/vuln/408521, https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-95828.

Affected VersionsENISA

College-Management-System 82ab01d057d96c8893c419cd9cb6870120faaea3
College-Management-System c81bbedea4d9e0b860ac368aa1dbb10e55ceddce
College-Management-System a37300648b6e50d43a2f10392ad741d199635daf

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Technical ContextAI · show details

The vulnerability is a classic CWE-384 session fixation in a PHP application. Front-end/server.php calls session_start() without calling session_regenerate_id(true) when a user authenticates, so any attacker-supplied PHPSESSID value that reaches the server before login is retained after the authentication state changes. An attacker can seed that identifier by luring the victim to a URL carrying a chosen session ID parameter, by setting the cookie from a related origin, or through any other means of cookie injection; because the session identifier is not rotated at the privilege boundary, the pre-authentication and post-authentication sessions share the same ID and the attacker can reuse it to ride the victim's authenticated context. The affected artifact is tracked by CPE cpe:2.3:a:mstfakts:college-management-system:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, i.e. the whole project rather than a specific build. The attack is network-reachable (AV:N) and needs no attacker credentials (PR:N), but it is not autonomous: the victim must interact (UI:R/UI:P) by logging in while holding the attacker's session cookie. The upstream maintainers shipped no fixed release because the project uses rolling releases, and the reported issue at github.com/Mstfakts/College-Management-System/issues/8 had not received a vendor response at the time of analysis.

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Severity by source

Vendor (VulDB) PRIMARY 2.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
vuln.today AI 5.4 MEDIUM

Network-reachable and low-complexity, but requires victim to log in (UI:R); successful fixation enables limited victim impersonation, so C:L/I:L and A:N.

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Primary rating from Vendor (VulDB).

CVSS VectorVendor: VulDB

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Attack Requirements
None
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Passive
Vulnerable system: Confidentiality
Low
Vulnerable system: Integrity
None
Vulnerable system: Availability
None
Subsequent system: Confidentiality
None
Subsequent system: Integrity
None
Subsequent system: Availability
None

Lifecycle Timeline

3
Severity Changed
Sep 22, 2026 - 23:22 NVD
MEDIUM LOW
CVSS changed
Sep 22, 2026 - 23:22 NVD
5.3 (MEDIUM) 2.1 (LOW)
CVE Published
Sep 22, 2026 - 22:45 cve.org
LOW 2.1

DescriptionCVE.org

A vulnerability was determined in Mstfakts College-Management-System. This affects the function session_start of the file Front-end/server.php of the component Authentication. Executing a manipulation can lead to session fixiation. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploit has been publicly disclosed and may be utilized. This product takes the approach of rolling releases to provide continious delivery. Therefore, version details for affected and updated releases are not available. The project was informed of the problem early through an issue report but has not responded yet.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.7%
Top 49% exploitable
Prevalence
Rare
obscure single-author GitHub project, no enterprise deployment footprint
Exploit
POC
Public exploit code exists
Data Quality
7 sources
Confidence: High
EUVD NVD CVE.org EPSS Vulnrichment GitHub VulDB

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity LOW
CISA KEV No
Public POC Yes
EPSS 0.7%
Patch available No
Active threat No
Deciding rule
LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision· derived
Scheduled
Exploitation
Poc
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable
No
Human Impact· derived
Low
Technical Impact
Partial

Priority Score

31
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: +1
CVSS: +10
PoC: +20
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.

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