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CVE-2015-1820: Session fixation vulnerability via Set-Cookie headers

August 9, 2017 (updated August 21, 2017)

The package rest-client in abstract_response.rb improperly handles Set-Cookie headers on HTTP redirection responses. Any cookies will be forwarded to the redirection target regardless of domain, path, or expiration. If you control a redirection source, you can cause rest-client to perform a request to any third-party domain with cookies of your choosing, which may be useful in performing a session fixation attack. If you control a redirection target, you can steal any cookies set by the third-party redirection request.

References

  • github.com/rest-client/rest-client/issues/369

Code Behaviors & Features

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 1.6.1 before 1.8.0

Fixed versions

  • 1.8.0

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.8.0 or above.

Impact 9.8 CRITICAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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Weakness

  • CWE-384: Session Fixation

Source file

gem/rest-client/CVE-2015-1820.yml

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