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CVE-2008-7248

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.

Published

2009-12-16T01:30:00.217

Last Modified

2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 6.8 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: MEDIUM
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

8.6

Impact Score

6.4

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-20

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	rubyonrails	rails	2.1.0	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	2.1.1	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	2.1.2	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	2.2.0	Yes
Application	rubyonrails	rails	2.2.1	Yes

References

http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/browse_thread/thread/d741ee286e36e301?hl=en ([email protected])
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html ([email protected])
http://pseudo-flaw.net/content/web-browsers/form-data-encoding-roundup/ ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/36600 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/38915 ([email protected])
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/11/18/potential-circumvention-of-csrf-protection-in-rails-2-1 ([email protected])
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/28/1 ([email protected])
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/12/02/2 ([email protected])
http://www.rorsecurity.info/journal/2008/11/19/circumvent-rails-csrf-protection.html Exploit ([email protected])
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2544 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/browse_thread/thread/d741ee286e36e301?hl=en (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://pseudo-flaw.net/content/web-browsers/form-data-encoding-roundup/ (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/36600 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/38915 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/11/18/potential-circumvention-of-csrf-protection-in-rails-2-1 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/28/1 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/12/02/2 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.rorsecurity.info/journal/2008/11/19/circumvent-rails-csrf-protection.html Exploit (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2544 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)