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CVE-2008-7248 Detail

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.

Source:  MITRE
Description Last Modified:  12/15/2009

Impact

CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.8 MEDIUM
Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) (V2 legend)
Impact Subscore: 6.4
Exploitability Subscore: 8.6

Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (AU): None
Confidentiality (C): Partial
Integrity (I): Partial
Availability (A): Partial
Additional Information:
Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Allows unauthorized disclosure of information
Allows unauthorized modification
Allows disruption of service

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Hyperlink Resource
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
http://www.rorsecurity.info/journal/2008/11/19/circumvent-rails-csrf-protection.html Exploit
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2544 Vendor Advisory

Technical Details

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2008-7248
NVD Published Date:
12/15/2009
NVD Last Modified:
07/06/2012