| Name | CVE-2015-1820 |
| Description | REST client for Ruby (aka rest-client) before 1.8.0 allows remote attackers to conduct session fixation attacks or obtain sensitive cookie information by leveraging passage of cookies set in a response to a redirect. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 781238 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| ruby-rest-client (PTS) | bullseye | 2.1.0-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 2.1.0-3 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 2.1.0-4 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[wheezy] - ruby-rest-client <no-dsa> (The correction introduces a dependency on a package not available in wheezy)
[wheezy] - librestclient-ruby <not-affected> (Vulnerability introduced in 1.6.1, wheezy has 1.6.0)
[squeeze] - librestclient-ruby <not-affected> (Vulnerability introduced in 1.6.1, squeeze has 1.6.0)
https://github.com/rest-client/rest-client/issues/369
Patch: https://github.com/rest-client/rest-client/pull/365.patch (will need new dependency to ruby-http-cookie)