{"id":"CVE-2007-6077","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2007-6077","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T17:30:47.147Z","title":"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…","description":"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.","published":"2007-11-21T21:46:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T22:47:22.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":6.8,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"},"cwe":["CWE-362"],"affected":["rubyonrails/rails"],"epss":{"score":0.02512,"percentile":0.84671,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.51%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://dev.rubyonrails.org/changeset/8177","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/10048","tags":["Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/27781","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/28136","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2007/11/24/ruby-on-rails-1-2-6-security-and-maintenance-release","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26598","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-352A.html","tags":["US Government Resource"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4009","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4238","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://dev.rubyonrails.org/changeset/8177","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/10048","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/27781","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/28136","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2007/11/24/ruby-on-rails-1-2-6-security-and-maintenance-release","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26598","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-352A.html","tags":["US Government Resource"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4009","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4238","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-6077","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}