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Ruby on Rails Session Fixation Security Issue
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA27781
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Release Date:
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2007-11-27
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Popularity:
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4,270 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Hijacking
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Ruby on Rails 1.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2007-6077
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Description:
A security issue has been reported in Ruby on Rails, which can potentially be exploited by malicious people to conduct session fixation attacks.
The security issue is caused due to lib/action_controller/cgi_process.rb removing the ":cookie_only" attribute from "DEFAULT_SESSION_OPTIONS" and can be exploited to conduct session fixation attacks against applications using the affected component.
The security issue is reported in versions prior to 1.2.6.
Solution:
Update to version 1.2.6.
http://www.rubyonrails.org/down
Provided and/or discovered by:
sameer
Original Advisory:
http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/10048
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