CVE-2008-7248
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)
02 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)
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 8.08% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 94.7% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2009-12-16 01:00Z16 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 11:56Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2009-12-11
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 6d9dbe8961adffed7bdd08249f2cc4be78fbb6e0adb6907d4f08161feada89e4
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20091128 CVE request: Ruby on Rails: CSRF circumvention (from 2008)http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/28/1
- www.rorsecurity.infohttp://www.rorsecurity.info/journal/2008/11/19/circumvent-rails-csrf-protection.html
- secunia.com36600http://secunia.com/advisories/36600
- pseudo-flaw.nethttp://pseudo-flaw.net/content/web-browsers/form-data-encoding-roundup/
- weblog.rubyonrails.orghttp://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/11/18/potential-circumvention-of-csrf-protection-in-rails-2-1
- www.vupen.comADV-2009-2544http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2544
- groups.google.comhttp://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/browse_thread/thread/d741ee286e36e301?hl=en
- lists.opensuse.orgSUSE-SR:2010:006http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20091202 Re: CVE request: Ruby on Rails: CSRF circumvention (from 2008)http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/12/02/2
- secunia.com38915http://secunia.com/advisories/38915
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- rails Fixed in 2.2.3-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- rails Fixed in 2.2.3-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- rails Fixed in 2.2.3-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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