Executive Summary



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Summary
Title Ruby on Rails: Multiple vulnerabilities
Informations
Name GLSA-200711-17 First vendor Publication 2007-11-14
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2007-11-14
Severity (Vendor) Normal Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 6.8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

Several vulnerabilities were found in Ruby on Rails allowing for file disclosure and theft of user credentials.

Background

Ruby on Rails is a free web framework used to develop database-driven web applications.

Description

candlerb found that ActiveResource, when processing responses using the Hash.from_xml() function, does not properly sanitize filenames
(CVE-2007-5380). The session management functionality allowed the
"session_id" to be set in the URL (CVE-2007-5380). BCC discovered that the to_json() function does not properly sanitize input before returning it to the user (CVE-2007-3227).

Impact

Unauthenticated remote attackers could exploit these vulnerabilities to determine the existence of files or to read the contents of arbitrary XML files; conduct session fixation attacks and gain unauthorized access; and to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site by enticing a user to browse a specially crafted URL.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Ruby on Rails users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-ruby/rails-1.2.5"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2007-3227 : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-3227
[ 2 ] CVE-2007-5379 : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5379
[ 3 ] CVE-2007-5380 : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5380

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-17.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-17.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
50 % CWE-200 Information Exposure
50 % CWE-79 Failure to Preserve Web Page Structure ('Cross-site Scripting') (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2010-05-12 Name : Mac OS X Security Update 2007-009
File : nvt/macosx_secupd_2007-009.nasl
2009-12-30 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200912-02 (rails)
File : nvt/glsa_200912_02.nasl
2009-11-17 Name : Mac OS X Version
File : nvt/macosx_version.nasl
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200711-17 (rails)
File : nvt/glsa_200711_17.nasl
2008-09-04 Name : FreeBSD Ports: rubygem-rails
File : nvt/freebsd_rubygem-rails0.nasl
2008-09-04 Name : FreeBSD Ports: rubygem-rails
File : nvt/freebsd_rubygem-rails1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
40718 Ruby on Rails URL-based Sessions Unspecified Session Fixation
40717 Ruby on Rails Hash.from_xml (Hash#from_xml) Method Remote File Existence Disc...
36378 Ruby on Rails to_json input Value XSS

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2009-12-22 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200912-02.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-12-18 Name : The remote host is missing a Mac OS X update that fixes various security issues.
File : macosx_SecUpd2007-009.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-11-30 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_rubygem-actionpack-4754.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-11-29 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_30acb8ae9d4611dc9114001c2514716c.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-11-29 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_44fb03029d3811dc9114001c2514716c.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-11-28 Name : The remote web server is affected by a session fixation vulnerability.
File : ror_session_fixation.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-11-15 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200711-17.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-11-15 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_rubygem-activesupport-4568.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-11-14 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_rubygem-activesupport-4565.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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