GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems
GHSA-vpfw-47h7-xj4g Rack session gets restored after deletion
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2025-32441
- Ecosystem
- RubyGems
- Packages
- rack
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362, CWE-367, CWE-613
- Reviewed
- 2025-05-08
Affected packages
• RubyGems rack: < 2.2.14 → fixed in 2.2.14
Description
Summary
When using the `Rack::Session::Pool` middleware, simultaneous rack requests can restore a deleted rack session, which allows the unauthenticated user to occupy that session.
Details
Rack session middleware prepares the session at the beginning of request, then saves is back to the store with possible changes applied by host rack application. This way the session becomes to be a subject of race conditions in general sense over concurrent rack requests.
Impact
When using the `Rack::Session::Pool` middleware, and provided the attacker can acquire a session cookie (already a major issue), the session may be restored if the attacker can trigger a long running request (within that same session) adjacent to the user logging out, in order to retain illicit access even after a user has attempted to logout.
Mitigation
• Update to the latest version of `rack`, or
• Ensure your application invalidates sessions atomically by marking them as logged out e.g., using a `logged_out` flag, instead of deleting them, and check this flag on every request to prevent reuse, or
• Implement a custom session store that tracks session invalidation timestamps and refuses to accept session data if the session was invalidated after the request began.
Related
As this code was moved to `rack-session` in Rack 3+, see for the equivalent advisory in `rack-session` (affecting Rack 3+ only).
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2025-32441 Rack is a modular Ruby web server interface. vulnerability
References
- https://github.com/rack/rack-session/security/advisories/GHSA-9j94-67jr-4cqj web
- https://github.com/rack/rack/security/advisories/GHSA-vpfw-47h7-xj4g web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-32441 advisory
- https://github.com/rack/rack/commit/c48e52f7c57e99e1e1bf54c8760d4f082cd1c89d web
- https://github.com/rack/rack package
- https://github.com/rack/rack/blob/v2.2.13/lib/rack/session/abstract/id.rb#L263-L270 web
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rack/CVE-2025-32441.yml web