GHSA-8fqx-7pv4-3jwmMedium
Improper Input Validation in actionpack
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 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.
🎯 Affected products2
- rubygems/actionpack:>= 2.1.0, < 2.1.3
- rubygems/actionpack:>= 2.2.0, < 2.2.2
🔗 References (20)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-7248
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-7248
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544329
- https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/browse_thread/thread/d741ee286e36e301?hl=en
- https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html
- https://pseudo-flaw.net/content/web-browsers/form-data-encoding-roundup/
- https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/11/18/potential-circumvention-of-csrf-protection-in-rails-2-1
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/28/1
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/12/02/2
- https://www.rorsecurity.info/journal/2008/11/19/circumvent-rails-csrf-protection.html
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/actionpack/CVE-2008-7248.yml
- 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://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.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/28/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/12/02/2
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/099a98e9b7108dae3e0f78b207e0a7dc5913bd1a
- https://web.archive.org/web/20090906010200/https://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2544
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8fqx-7pv4-3jwm