National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-2671
Original release date:06/17/2012
Last revised:08/09/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The Rack::Cache rubygem 0.3.0 through 1.1 caches Set-Cookie and other sensitive headers, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive cookie information, hijack web sessions, or have other unspecified impact by accessing the cache.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://github.com/rtomayko/rack-cache/pull/52
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://github.com/rtomayko/rack-cache/commit/2e3a64d07daac4c757cc57620f2288e865a09b90
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://github.com/rtomayko/rack-cache/blob/master/CHANGES
External Source: MISC
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=824520
External Source: MISC
Name: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=763650
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20120606 Re: CVE request: rack-cache caches sensitive headers (Set-Cookie)
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20120606 CVE request: rack-cache caches sensitive headers (Set-Cookie)
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2012-8439
