CVE-2007-6077

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    CVE-2007-6077

    Published: 21 Nov 2007Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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: http://secunia.com/advisories/27781, http://secunia.com/advisories/28136, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4009, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4238, http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2007/11/24/ruby-on-rails-1-2-6-security-and-maintenance-release, http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/10048, http://dev.rubyonrails.org/changeset/8177, http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179, http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26598, 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