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FreeBSD : rest-client -- session fixation vulnerability (83a7a720-07d8-11e5-9a28-001e67150279)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 83941

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Andy Brody reports :

When Ruby rest-client processes an HTTP redirection response, it blindly passes along the values from any Set-Cookie headers to the redirection target, regardless of domain, path, or expiration.

Solution

Update the affected package.

See Also

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=200504

https://github.com/rest-client/rest-client/issues/369

http://www.nessus.org/u?82ba8770

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 83941

File Name: freebsd_pkg_83a7a72007d811e59a28001e67150279.nasl

Version: 2.6

Type: local

Published: 6/2/2015

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:rubygem-rest-client, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 5/31/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/24/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-1820