National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-7248

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2009-2544

Type: Advisory

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

External Source: MISC

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

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

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20091202 Re: CVE request: Ruby on Rails: CSRF circumvention (from 2008)

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

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20091128 CVE request: Ruby on Rails: CSRF circumvention (from 2008)

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

External Source: CONFIRM

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

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

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 38915

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

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 36600

Type: Advisory

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

External Source: MISC

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

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

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2010:006

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

External Source: MISC

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

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