CVE-2021-29481

Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in maven/io.ratpack/ratpack-core

Identifiers

CVE-2021-29481, GHSA-phj8-4cq3-794g

Package Slug

maven/io.ratpack/ratpack-core

Vulnerability

Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information

Description

Ratpack is a toolkit for creating web applications., 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. 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. As of, a securely randomly generated signing key is used. As a workaround, one may supply an encryption key, as per the documentation recommendation.

Affected Versions

All versions before 1.9.0

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.9.0 or above.

Last Modified

2021-07-09

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