ADVISORIES

• CVE-2007-6077 (NVD)
• GHSA-p4c6-77gc-694x
• Vendor Advisory

GEM

rails

FRAMEWORK

Ruby on Rails

SEVERITY

CVSS v2.0: 6.8 (Medium)

PATCHED VERSIONS

• >= 1.2.6

DESCRIPTION

The session fixation protection mechanism in cgi_process.rb in Rails 1.2.4, as used in Ruby on Rails, removes the :cookie_only attribute from the DEFAULT_SESSION_OPTIONS constant, which effectively causes cookie_only to be applied only to the first instantiation of CgiRequest, which allows remote attackers to conduct session fixation attacks.

NOTE: this is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-5380.

RELATED

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-6077
• http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2007/11/24/ruby-on-rails-1-2-6-security-and-maintenance-release
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p4c6-77gc-694x
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2007-6077