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CVE-2007-6077

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered	Topic
2007-11-27	rubygem-rails -- session-fixation vulnerability

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CVE-2007-6077 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2007-6077
Phase	Assigned(20071121)

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.

References

Source	Reference
CONFIRM	http://dev.rubyonrails.org/changeset/8177
CONFIRM	http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/10048
CONFIRM	http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2007/11/24/ruby-on-rails-1-2-6-security-and-maintenance-release
CONFIRM	http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179
APPLE	APPLE-SA-2007-12-17
CERT	TA07-352A
BID	26598
VUPEN	ADV-2007-4009
VUPEN	ADV-2007-4238
SECUNIA	27781
SECUNIA	28136