GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems

GHSA-jp5v-5gx4-jmj9 Ability to forge per-form CSRF tokens in Rails

MEDIUM Published 2020-05-26 Modified 2026-05-05 Official page ↗
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 ------ 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 ----------- 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