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CVE-2004-0755

14
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-0755 describes a vulnerability in the FileStore capability of CGI::Session for Ruby versions prior to 1.8.1, and potentially PStore, where session files are created with insecure permissions. This flaw allows local attackers to access sensitive session information and hijack user sessions. The vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and a potential impact of partial confidentiality loss. While there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or Metasploit/Nuclei modules, the CVE has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions, primarily on GitHub.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:yukihiro_matsumoto:ruby:1.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:yukihiro_matsumoto:ruby:1.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.36%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
29.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0036 is in the 36th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: ruby-0:1.6.8-9.EL3.2
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2004-0755Low

security flaw

Jul 22, 2004

References

secunia.com / advisories/12290
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/16996
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11128
debian.org / security/2004/dsa-537
PatchVendor Advisory
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200409-08.xml
PatchVendor Advisory
mandriva.com / security/advisories