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Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affecting rails package, versions <2.0.5

0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.21% (59th percentile)
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NVD
5.3 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-RAILS-455953
  • published 31 Jul 2019
  • disclosed 21 Nov 2008
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 21 Nov 2008

CVE-2008-5189 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-352 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade rails to version 2.0.5 or higher.

Overview

rails is an opensource MVC web framework.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). It allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via a crafted URL to the redirect_to function.