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Ruby on Rails: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) (CVE-2020-8166)

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Ruby on Rails: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) (CVE-2020-8166)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
07/02/2020
Created
07/14/2020
Added
07/13/2020
Modified
11/26/2024

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)

  • ruby-on-rails-upgrade-5_2_4_3
  • ruby-on-rails-upgrade-6_0_3_1

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