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Session Fixation Affecting rest-client package, versions >1.6.0, <1.8.0

0.0
critical

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.64% (80th percentile)
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NVD
9.8 critical
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Red Hat
4.3 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-RESTCLIENT-20211
  • published 23 Mar 2015
  • disclosed 23 Mar 2015
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 23 Mar 2015

CVE-2015-1820 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-384 Open this link in a new tab

Overview

rest-client gem is an HTTP and REST client for Ruby. Affected versions of this gem improperly handle Set-Cookie headers on HTTP 30x redirection responses in abstract_response.rb. Any cookies will be forwarded to the redirection target regardless of domain, path, or expiration.

If an attacker controls a redirection source, they can cause rest-client to perform a request to any third-party domain with cookies of their choosing, which may be useful in performing a Session Fixation attack.

If an control a redirection target, you can steal any cookies set by the third-party redirection request.