ADVISORIES

• CVE-2008-7248 (NVD)
• GHSA-8fqx-7pv4-3jwm
• Vendor Advisory

GEM

actionpack

FRAMEWORK

Ruby on Rails

SEVERITY

CVSS v2.0: 6.8 (Medium)

UNAFFECTED VERSIONS

• < 2.1.0

PATCHED VERSIONS

• ~> 2.1.3
• >= 2.2.2

DESCRIPTION

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.

RELATED

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-7248
• https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/11/18/potential-circumvention-of-csrf-protection-in-rails-2-1
• https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/browse_thread/thread/d741ee286e36e301?hl=en
• https://www.rorsecurity.info/journal/2008/11/19/circumvent-rails-csrf-protection.html
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8fqx-7pv4-3jwm
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-7248
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544329
• https://pseudo-flaw.net/content/web-browsers/form-data-encoding-roundup/
• https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/28/1
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/12/02/2
• http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/099a98e9b7108dae3e0f78b207e0a7dc5913bd1a
• http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/f1ad8b48aae3ee26613b3e77bc0056e120096846
• https://rubygems.org/gems/rails/versions/2.1.2
• https://rubygems.org/gems/rails/versions/2.1.2