CVE-2007-6077
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-362
- EPSS score
- 2.5% (85th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2017-0277)
- Published
- November 21, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2017-0277 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
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- rubyonrails / rails
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- rubyonrails / rails
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- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
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- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
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- rubyonrails / rails
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- rubyonrails / rails
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- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
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References
- http://dev.rubyonrails.org/changeset/8177
- http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/10048(Patch)
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27781(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28136(Vendor Advisory)
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2007/11/24/ruby-on-rails-1-2-6-security-and-maintenance-release
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26598
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-352A.html(US Government Resource)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4009(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4238(Vendor Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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