CVE-2026-39324

Rack::Session::Cookie secrets: decrypt failure fallback enables secretless session forgery and Marshal deserialization

State
Published
Severity
9.3 Critical
Published
Apr 7, 2026
Updated
Apr 8, 2026
Reserved
Apr 6, 2026

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Description

Rack::Session is a session management implementation for Rack. From 2.0.0 to before 2.1.2, Rack::Session::Cookie incorrectly handles decryption failures when configured with secrets:. If cookie decryption fails, the implementation falls back to a default decoder instead of rejecting the cookie. This allows an unauthenticated attacker to supply a crafted session cookie that is accepted as valid session data without knowledge of any configured secret. Because this mechanism is used to load session state, an attacker can manipulate session contents and potentially gain unauthorized access. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.1.2.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.09.3 CriticalCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-287 Improper Authentication
  • CWE-345 Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity
  • CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data
  • CWE-565 Reliance on Cookies without Validation and Integrity Checking

Affected Products

ProductVersions
rack-sessionrack
  • >= 2.0.0, < 2.1.2Affected

References

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