GHSA-phj8-4cq3-794g

Source

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-phj8-4cq3-794g

Import Source

https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2021/07/GHSA-phj8-4cq3-794g/GHSA-phj8-4cq3-794g.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-phj8-4cq3-794g

Aliases

CVE-2021-29481

Published

2021-07-01T17:02:13Z

Modified

2023-11-08T04:05:35.291909Z

Severity

6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator

Summary

Unencrypted storage of client side sessions

Details

Impact

The default configuration of client side sessions results in unencrypted, but signed, data being set as cookie values. This means that if something sensitive goes into the session, it could be read by something with access to the cookies.

Note: the documentation does point this out and encourage users to add an encryption key, but it is not mandatory.

For this to be a vulnerability, some kind of sensitive data would need to be stored in the session and the session cookie would have to leak. For example, the cookies are not configured with httpOnly and an adjacent XSS vulnerability within the site allowed capture of the cookies.

The proposed change is to change the default behaviour to use a randomly generated encryption key. This would mean that sessions do not survive app restarts, but this is already the behaviour given the random signing key.

Patches

As of version 1.9.0, a securely randomly generated signing key is used.

Workarounds

Supply an encryption key, as per the documentation recommendation.

References

https://github.com/ratpack/ratpack/pull/1590

Database specific

{
    "nvd_published_at": "2021-06-29T19:15:00Z",
    "github_reviewed_at": "2021-06-30T17:48:41Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE",
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-312"
    ]
}

References

Affected packages

Maven / io.ratpack:ratpack-session

Package

Name: io.ratpack:ratpack-session; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:maven/io.ratpack/ratpack-session

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1.9.0

Affected versions

0.*

0.9.0

0.9.1

0.9.2

0.9.3

0.9.4

0.9.5

0.9.6

0.9.7

0.9.8

0.9.9

0.9.10

0.9.11

0.9.12

0.9.13

0.9.14

0.9.15

0.9.16

0.9.17

0.9.18

0.9.19

1.*

1.0.0-rc-1

1.0.0-rc-2

1.0.0-rc-3

1.0.0

1.1.0

1.1.1

1.2.0-RC-1

1.2.0-rc-2

1.2.0

1.3.0-rc-1

1.3.0-rc-2

1.3.0

1.3.1

1.3.2

1.3.3

1.4.0-rc-1

1.4.0-rc-2

1.4.0-rc-3

1.4.0

1.4.1

1.4.2

1.4.3

1.4.4

1.4.5

1.4.6

1.5.0

1.5.1

1.5.2

1.5.3

1.5.4

1.6.0-rc-1

1.6.0-rc-2

1.6.0-rc-3

1.6.0-rc-4

1.6.0

1.6.1

1.7.0

1.7.1

1.7.2

1.7.3

1.7.4

1.7.5

1.7.6

1.8.0

1.8.1

1.8.2

1.9.0-rc-1

1.9.0-rc-2