Race Condition Affecting rails package, versions <1.2.6-1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.88% (92nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-RAILS-5694208
  • published21 Nov 2007
  • disclosed21 Nov 2007

Introduced: 21 Nov 2007

CVE-2007-6077  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:13 rails to version 1.2.6-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rails package and not the rails package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:13 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

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