CVE-2008-7248
CVE-2008-7248
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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.
EPSS 8.1% · Public exploit · Fix available
- Published
- Updated
Stack: system
Affected products and versions
Original sources
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/28/1
- http://www.rorsecurity.info/journal/2008/11/19/circumvent-rails-csrf-protection.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36600
- http://pseudo-flaw.net/content/web-browsers/form-data-encoding-roundup/
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/11/18/potential-circumvention-of-csrf-protection-in-rails-2-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2544
- http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/browse_thread/thread/d741ee286e36e301?hl=en
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/12/02/2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38915
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-7248