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CVE-2008-7248

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Date: December 15, 2009

Ruby on Rails 2.1 before 2.1.3 and 2.2.x before 2.2.2 does not verify tokens for requests with certain content types, which allows remote attackers to bypass cross-site request forgery (CSRF) protection for requests to applications that rely on this protection, as demonstrated using text/plain.

Language: Ruby

Severity Score

3.7

Related Resources (26)

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2544

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-7248

Url: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/11/18/potential-circumvention-of-csrf-protection-in-rails-2-1

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/38915

Url: http://pseudo-flaw.net/content/web-browsers/form-data-encoding-roundup

Url: https://web.archive.org/web/20090906010200/https://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2544

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html

Url: http://www.rorsecurity.info/journal/2008/11/19/circumvent-rails-csrf-protection.html

Url: http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/browse_thread/thread/d741ee286e36e301?hl=en

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/12/02/2

Url: https://github.com/rails/rails

Url: https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/actionpack/CVE-2008-7248.yml

Url: https://pseudo-flaw.net/content/web-browsers/form-data-encoding-roundup

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-7248

Url: https://www.rorsecurity.info/journal/2008/11/19/circumvent-rails-csrf-protection.html

Url: http://pseudo-flaw.net/content/web-browsers/form-data-encoding-roundup/

Url: https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/11/18/potential-circumvention-of-csrf-protection-in-rails-2-1

Url: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/28/1

Url: https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/browse_thread/thread/d741ee286e36e301?hl=en

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/36600

Url: https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/099a98e9b7108dae3e0f78b207e0a7dc5913bd1a

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544329

Url: https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/28/1

Url: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/12/02/2

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2008-7248

Severity Score

3.7

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Input Validation

CWE-20

Top Fix

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	3.7
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	LOW
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:	6.8
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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CVE-2008-7248

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Date: December 15, 2009

Language: Ruby

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Related Resources (26)

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Weakness Type (CWE)

Top Fix

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CVSS v3.1

CVSS v2

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