What is GHSA-44vf-8ffm-v2qh?

GHSA-44vf-8ffm-v2qh is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with High severity. Sensitive Data Exposure in rails-session-decoder

Why does GHSA-44vf-8ffm-v2qh have no CVE ID yet?

GitHub Security Advisories published this advisory directly to customers before NVD assigned a CVE ID. This is the embargo-window disclosure pattern — vendors notify customers on day 0; NVD's public record follows days to weeks later.

Which products are affected by GHSA-44vf-8ffm-v2qh?

GHSA-44vf-8ffm-v2qh affects 1 product, including: npm/rails-session-decoder:\u003e= 0.0.0.

GHSA-44vf-8ffm-v2qhHighDisclosed before NVD

Sensitive Data Exposure in rails-session-decoder

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

September 2, 2020

Last Modified

January 9, 2023

📋 Description

All versions of rails-session-decoder are missing verification of the Message Authentication Code appended to the cookies. This may lead to decryption of cipher text thus exposing encrypted information.

Recommendation

No fix is currently available. Consider using an alternative module until a fix is made available.

🎯 Affected products1

npm/rails-session-decoder:>= 0.0.0

🔗 References (2)

https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/753
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-44vf-8ffm-v2qh