Moderate severity vulnerability that affects rails
Published: October 24, 2017
SECURITY IDENTIFIERS
- CVE: CVE-2007-6077 (NVD)
- GHSA: GHSA-p4c6-77gc-694x
- Vendor Advisory: https://rubyonrails.org/2007/11/24/ruby-on-rails-1-2-6-security-and-maintenance-release
GEM
FRAMEWORK
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.