GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems

GHSA-p4c6-77gc-694x session fixation protection mechanism in cgi_process.rb in Rails

MEDIUM Published 2017-10-24 Modified 2025-04-09 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2007-6077
Ecosystem
RubyGems
Packages
rails
Severity
Moderate
Weaknesses
CWE-362
Reviewed
2020-06-16

Affected packages

• RubyGems rails: < 1.2.6 → fixed in 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

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2007-6077 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… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness

References