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Affected versions
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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.
References
- Advisorysecunia.com/advisories/27781 ↗
- Advisorysecunia.com/advisories/28136 ↗
- Advisorywww.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4009 ↗
- Advisorywww.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4238 ↗
- ARTICLEweblog.rubyonrails.org/2007/11/24/ruby-on-rails-1-2-6-security-and-maintenance-release ↗
- Fixdev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/10048 ↗
- Webdev.rubyonrails.org/changeset/8177 ↗
- Webdocs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179 ↗
- Weblists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html ↗
- Webwww.securityfocus.com/bid/26598 ↗
- Webwww.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-352A.html ↗