Vulnerability advisory

GHSA-p4c6-77gc-694x

session fixation protection mechanism in cgi_process.rb in Rails

Published Oct 24, 2017Updated Apr 9, 2025OSV record ↗

Also known as CVE-2007-6077

Severity

Severity not reported.

Affected versions

rails RubyGems

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Affected	Fixed in
All versions before 1.2.6	`1.2.6`Advisories →
Also listed as affected (35) `0.10.0` `0.10.1` `0.11.0` `0.11.1` `0.12.0` `0.12.1` `0.13.0` `0.13.1` `0.14.1` `0.14.2` `0.14.3` `0.14.4` `0.8.0` `0.8.5` `0.9.0` `0.9.1` `0.9.2` `0.9.3` `0.9.4` `0.9.4.1` `0.9.5` `1.0.0` `1.1.0` `1.1.1` `1.1.2` `1.1.3` `1.1.4` `1.1.5` `1.1.6` `1.2.0` `1.2.1` `1.2.2` `1.2.3` `1.2.4` `1.2.5`

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.

GHSA-p4c6-77gc-694x

Affected versions

rails RubyGems

Description

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