CVE-2007-6077

EPSS 3.3%

session fixation protection mechanism in cgi_process.rb in Rails

Published: 10/24/2017Modified: 4/28/2026

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.

Affected packages (2)

References (16)