CVE-2008-7248

CVSS V2 Medium 6.8 CVSS V3 None
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2008-7248
  • Assigner
  • secalert@redhat.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2009-12-16T01:30:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2023-02-13T02:19:37
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-20 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/20.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 6.8
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 6.4
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2544 Vendor Advisory
http://www.rorsecurity.info/journal/2008/11/19/circumvent-rails-csrf-protection.html Exploit
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/28/1
http://pseudo-flaw.net/content/web-browsers/form-data-encoding-roundup/
http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/browse_thread/thread/d741ee286e36e301?hl=en
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/12/02/2
http://secunia.com/advisories/36600 Vendor Advisory
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/11/18/potential-circumvention-of-csrf-protection-in-rails-2-1
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/38915
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-7248
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-7248
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 17:39:12 Added to TrackCVE
2023-02-02 17:02:44 2023-02-02T15:15:13 CVE Modified Date updated
2023-02-02 17:02:44 Analyzed Modified Vulnerability Status updated
2023-02-02 17:02:44 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. CVE-2008-7248 rubygem-actionpack: Potential CSRF protection circumvention Description updated
2023-02-13 03:03:27 2023-02-13T02:19:37 CVE Modified Date updated
2023-02-13 03:03:28 CVE-2008-7248 rubygem-actionpack: Potential CSRF protection circumvention 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. Description updated