{"cve":"CVE-2026-82840","nvd":{"published":"2026-11-01T22:17:48.017","modified":"2026-11-01T22:17:48.017","status":"Received","description":"Session fixation in Apache Wicket.\n\norg.apache.wicket.authroles.authentication.AuthenticatedWebSession is the authentication base class of Wicket's role-based security module, and its signIn(String, String) method is the entry point through which an application authenticates a session. Renewing the container session id at that point is the standard defence against an attacker who has fixed a session id in a victim's browser, and Wicket provides that renewal as org.apache.wicket.Session#changeSessionId(), whose documentation directs callers to invoke it on login for exactly that reason.\n\nAuthenticatedWebSession#signIn(String, String) calls it inside a guard that succeeds only on the first transition of the session's signed-in flag. The session id is therefore renewed when a session first signs in, and is not renewed when a session that is already signed in authenticates again. signIn(String, String) returns true either way, so neither the caller nor the application can tell that the renewal did not happen.\n\nAn application is affected where it authenticates through AuthenticatedWebSession, which AuthenticatedWebApplication requires and which the shipped UsernamePasswordPanel uses, and where a session that is already signed in can authenticate again: a step-up prompt before a sensitive action, an account switch, or simply a sign-in form that stays reachable once the user is signed in. Nothing in the module hides that form from a signed-in session. Reaching the defect also requires an attacker to place a session id of their choosing in the victim's browser. JSESSIONID is set by the servlet container rather than by Wicket, so that needs a position Wicket does not grant, such as control of a host under the same registrable domain or a container configured to carry the session id in the URL, and the planted session has to be one the attacker has already signed in on, because a session that is not yet signed in does have its id renewed by the victim's authentication. An authentication attempt that fails signs the session out and closes the window. Applications that renew the session id in their own code after a successful authentication are not affected.\n\nAs a workaround, renew the session id from the application's own code on every successful authentication, by calling Session#changeSessionId() at the end of the authenticate(String, String) implementation.\n\nThis issue affects Apache Wicket: from 8.18.0 through 8.19.0, from 9.23.0 through 9.24.0, from 10.9.0 through 10.11.0.\n\nUsers are recommended to upgrade to version 8.20.0, 9.25.0 or 10.12.0, which fix the issue.","cvss_v4":{"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","score":7.2},"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":["CWE-384"],"references":["https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/q812kjb74x2pt6956w0pcmkc4wwj95l9"],"reference_tags":[{"url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/q812kjb74x2pt6956w0pcmkc4wwj95l9","tags":[]}],"products":[],"affected":[],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-11-01T22:48:13.476441406+00:00"},"epss":null,"kev":null,"exploits":[],"weaknesses":[{"name":"Session Fixation","common_name":null,"deprecated":false,"replaced_by":[],"id":"CWE-384"}],"osv":[],"fixed":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program.","Public exploits: links to the Exploit Database (https://www.exploit-db.com, by OffSec; index under GPL-2.0), Rapid7's Metasploit Framework modules (https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework, BSD-3-Clause) and ProjectDiscovery's nuclei templates (https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates, MIT). Only the links, titles and dates are stored; no exploit code is fetched or served.","CWE names and descriptions: MITRE's Common Weakness Enumeration (https://cwe.mitre.org), Copyright © 2006–2026, The MITRE Corporation, under the CWE terms of use (https://cwe.mitre.org/about/termsofuse.html). CWE is a trademark of The MITRE Corporation."]}