GHSA-vpfw-47h7-xj4g
Rack session gets restored after deletion
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### Summary
When using the `Rack::Session::Pool` middleware, simultaneous rack requests can restore a deleted rack session, which allows the unauthenticated user to occupy that session.
### Details
[Rack session middleware](https://github.com/rack/rack/blob/v2.2.13/lib/rack/session/abstract/id.rb#L263-L270) prepares the session at the beginning of request, then saves is back to the store with possible changes applied by host rack application. This way the session becomes to be a subject of race conditions in general sense over concurrent rack requests.
### Impact
When using the `Rack::Session::Pool` middleware, and provided the attacker can acquire a session cookie (already a major issue), the session may be restored if the attacker can trigger a long running request (within that same session) adjacent to the user logging out, in order to retain illicit access even after a user has attempted to logout.
## Mitigation
- Update to the latest version of `rack`, or
- Ensure your application invalidates sessions atomically by marking them as logged out e.g., using a `logged_out` flag, instead of deleting them, and check this flag on every request to prevent reuse, or
- Implement a custom session store that tracks session invalidation timestamps and refuses to accept session data if the session was invalidated after the request began.
### Related
As this code was moved to `rack-session` in Rack 3+, see <https://github.com/rack/rack-session/security/advisories/GHSA-9j94-67jr-4cqj> for the equivalent advisory in `rack-session` (affecting Rack 3+ only).
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/rack/rack-session/security/advisories/GHSA-9j94-67jr-4cqj
- https://github.com/rack/rack/security/advisories/GHSA-vpfw-47h7-xj4g
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-32441
- https://github.com/rack/rack/commit/c48e52f7c57e99e1e1bf54c8760d4f082cd1c89d
- https://github.com/rack/rack
- https://github.com/rack/rack/blob/v2.2.13/lib/rack/session/abstract/id.rb#L263-L270
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rack/CVE-2025-32441.yml