GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems
GHSA-jp5v-5gx4-jmj9 Ability to forge per-form CSRF tokens in Rails
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2020-8166
- Ecosystem
- RubyGems
- Packages
- actionpack
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-352
- Reviewed
- 2020-05-26
Affected packages
• RubyGems actionpack: >= 5.0.0, < 5.2.4.3 → fixed in 5.2.4.3
• RubyGems actionpack: >= 6.0.0, < 6.0.3.1 → fixed in 6.0.3.1
Description
It is possible to, given a global CSRF token such as the one present in the authenticity_token meta tag, forge a per-form CSRF token for any action for that session.
Impact
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Given the ability to extract the global CSRF token, an attacker would be able to construct a per-form CSRF token for that session.
Workarounds
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This is a low-severity security issue. As such, no workaround is necessarily until such time as the application can be upgraded.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2020-8166 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… vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8166 advisory
- https://hackerone.com/reports/732415 web
- https://github.com/rails/rails package
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/actionpack/CVE-2020-8166.yml web
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rubyonrails-security/NOjKiGeXUgw web
- https://groups.google.com/g/rubyonrails-security/c/NOjKiGeXUgw web
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4766 web