Ruby On Rails Known Secret Session Cookie Remote Code Execution
Publish date: October 26, 2016
Severity: CRITICAL
DESCRIPTION
This module implements Remote Command Execution on Ruby on Rails applications.
Prerequisite is knowledge of the "secret_token" (Rails 2/3) or "secret_key_base"
(Rails 4). The values for those can be usually found in the default location. The module achieves RCE by deserialization of a crafted Ruby Object.
TREND MICRO PROTECTION INFORMATION
Apply associated Trend Micro DPI Rules.
SOLUTION
Trend Micro Deep Security DPI Rule Number: 1005639
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