Microsoft security update for CVE-2026-38968 — azl3 ntopng
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products2
- azl3 ntopng 5.2.1-6 on Azure Linux 3.0
- azl3 ntopng 5.2.1-7 on Azure Linux 3.0
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 2 updates
2 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | 5.2.1-7 |
| — | Security Update | — |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2026-38968
- EchelonGraph score
- 9.8 CRITICAL
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
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.
Published by MITRE Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2026-38968, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).