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.
Published: 2007-11-21
Score: 6.8 Medium
EPSS: 3.3% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-0277 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-p4c6-77gc-694x session fixation protection mechanism in cgi_process.rb in Rails
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Rubyonrails Rails Ruby On Rails
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T15:54:26.389Z

Reserved: 2007-11-21T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2007-6077

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Status : Modified

Published: 2007-11-21T21:46:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2007-6077

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