CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
There’s a possible information leak / session hijack vulnerability in Rack.
Attackers may be able to find and hijack sessions by using timing attacks
targeting the session id. Session ids are usually stored and indexed in a
database that uses some kind of scheme for speeding up lookups of that
session id. By carefully measuring the amount of time it takes to look up
a session, an attacker may be able to find a valid session id and hijack
the session.
The session id itself may be generated randomly, but the way the session is
indexed by the backing store does not use a secure comparison.
Impact:
The session id stored in a cookie is the same id that is used when querying
the backing session storage engine. Most storage mechanisms (for example a
database) use some sort of indexing in order to speed up the lookup of that
id. By carefully timing requests and session lookup failures, an attacker
may be able to perform a timing attack to determine an existing session id
and hijack that session.
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N