CVE-2019-16782 Information

Description

There’s a possible information leak / session hijack vulnerability in Rack (RubyGem rack). This vulnerability is patched in versions 1.6.12 and 2.0.8. 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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-02/msg00016.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/12/18/2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/12/18/3 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/12/19/3 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/04/08/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/04/09/2 https://github.com/rack/rack/commit/7fecaee81f59926b6e1913511c90650e76673b38 https://github.com/rack/rack/security/advisories/GHSA-hrqr-hxpp-chr3 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HZXMWILCICQLA2BYSP6I2CRMUG53YBLX/

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

5.9