Information Exposure Affecting rails-session-decoder package, versions <1.1.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-RAILSSESSIONDECODER-73497
  • published10 Jan 2019
  • disclosed8 Jan 2019
  • creditAlex Hill

Introduced: 8 Jan 2019

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade rails-session-decoder to version 1.1.0 or higher.

Overview

rails-session-decoder is a simple utility for decoding Rails 4.x sessions in node.js

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. Missing verification of the Message Authentication Code appended to the cookies may lead to decryption of cipher text thus exposing encrypted information.

CVSS Scores

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