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Debian: CVE-2020-8166: rails -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2020-8166: rails -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
07/02/2020
Created
09/28/2020
Added
09/28/2020
Modified
09/28/2020

Description

A CSRF forgery vulnerability exists in rails < 5.2.5, rails < 6.0.4 that makes it possible for an attacker to, given a global CSRF token such as the one present in the authenticity_token meta tag, forge a per-form CSRF token.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-rails

References

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