Ruby on Rails up to 6.1.7.6/7.0.8.0 Active Storage information disclosure

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A vulnerability was found in Ruby on Rails up to 6.1.7.6/7.0.8.0. It has been classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Active Storage. The manipulation leads to information disclosure. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2024-26144. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Ruby on Rails up to 6.1.7.6/7.0.8.0 (Programming Language Software) and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown code block of the component Active Storage. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Rails is a web-application framework. Starting with version 5.2.0, there is a possible sensitive session information leak in Active Storage. By default, Active Storage sends a Set-Cookie header along with the user's session cookie when serving blobs. It also sets Cache-Control to public. Certain proxies may cache the Set-Cookie, leading to an information leak. The vulnerability is fixed in 7.0.8.1 and 6.1.7.7.

The weakness was presented 02/27/2024 as GHSA-8h22-8cf7-hq6g. It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-26144 since 02/14/2024. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 212072 (RHEL 8 : Satellite 6.15.5 Async Update (Moderate) (RHSA-2024:10806)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 6.1.7.7 or 7.0.8.1 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 723f54566023e91060a67b03353e7c03e7436433 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (212072). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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• Programming Language Software

Name

• Ruby on Rails

Version

• 6.1.7.0
• 6.1.7.1
• 6.1.7.2
• 6.1.7.3
• 6.1.7.4
• 6.1.7.5
• 6.1.7.6
• 7.0.0
• 7.0.1
• 7.0.2
• 7.0.3
• 7.0.4
• 7.0.5
• 7.0.6
• 7.0.7
• 7.0.8.0

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• open-source

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