CVE-2013-0263

medium
Published 2013-02-07 ยท Modified 2024-12-05
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.1

Description

Rack::Session::Cookie in Rack 1.5.x before 1.5.2, 1.4.x before 1.4.5, 1.3.x before 1.3.10, 1.2.x before 1.2.8, and 1.1.x before 1.1.6 allows remote attackers to guess the session cookie, gain privileges, and execute arbitrary code via a timing attack involving an HMAC comparison function that does not run in constant time.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1.4.1-2.1
sid Fixed 1.4.1-2.1
forky Fixed 1.4.1-2.1
bullseye Fixed 1.4.1-2.1
bookworm Fixed 1.4.1-2.1

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
ruby RubyGemsrack<~> 1.1.6~> 1.1.6
ruby RubyGemsrack>=1.5.0,<1.5.21.5.2
ruby RubyGemsrack>=1.4.0,<1.4.51.4.5
ruby RubyGemsrack>=1.3.0,<1.3.101.3.10
ruby RubyGemsrack>=1.2.0,<1.2.81.2.8
ruby RubyGemsrack>=1.1.0,<1.1.61.1.6

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
rack_projectrack1.5.0
rack_projectrack1.5.1
rack_projectrack1.4.0
rack_projectrack1.4.1
rack_projectrack1.4.2
rack_projectrack1.4.3
rack_projectrack1.4.4
rack_projectrack1.3.0
rack_projectrack1.3.1
rack_projectrack1.3.2
rack_projectrack1.3.3
rack_projectrack1.3.4
rack_projectrack1.3.5
rack_projectrack1.3.6
rack_projectrack1.3.7
rack_projectrack1.3.8
rack_projectrack1.3.9
rack_projectrack1.2.0
rack_projectrack1.2.1
rack_projectrack1.2.2
rack_projectrack1.2.3
rack_projectrack1.2.4
rack_projectrack1.2.6
rack_projectrack1.2.7
rack_projectrack1.1.0
rack_projectrack1.1.4
rack_projectrack1.1.5
rack_projectrack1.1.6

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.