CVE-2007-5380

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    CVE-2007-5380

    Published: 19 Oct 2007Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Session fixation vulnerability in Rails before 1.2.4, as used for Ruby on Rails, allows remote attackers to hijack web sessions via unspecified vectors related to "URL-based sessions."

    References: http://secunia.com/advisories/27657, http://secunia.com/advisories/27965, http://secunia.com/advisories/28136, http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-17.xml, http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_25_sr.html, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3508, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4238, http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2007/10/5/rails-1-2-4-maintenance-release, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26096, http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195315, http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179, http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html, http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-352A.html

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High