CVE-2007-5380

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-10-19 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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."

Affected products

David Hansson Ruby On Rails: through 1.2.3

References

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://secunia.com/advisories/27657
http://secunia.com/advisories/27965
http://secunia.com/advisories/28136
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-17.xml
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2007/10/5/rails-1-2-4-maintenance-release
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_25_sr.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26096
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-352A.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3508

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