PT-2009-2715 · Ruby · Ruby On Rails

Alex Legler · Published 2009-12-16 · Updated 2023-02-13 · CVE-2008-7248

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Ruby on Rails versions 2.1 through 2.1.3 and versions 2.2.x through 2.2.2

Description The issue allows remote attackers to bypass cross-site request forgery (CSRF) protection for requests to applications that rely on this protection. This is possible because Ruby on Rails does not verify tokens for requests with certain content types, as demonstrated using text/plain.

Recommendations For versions 2.1 through 2.1.3, update to version 2.1.3 or later to resolve the issue. For versions 2.2.x through 2.2.2, update to version 2.2.2 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-7248

GHSA-8FQX-7PV4-3JWM

Affected Products

Ruby On Rails

References · 29

• 🔥 https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/actionpack/CVE-2008-7248.yml · Exploit
• 🔥 http://rorsecurity.info/journal/2008/11/19/circumvent-rails-csrf-protection.html · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/33402 · Exploit
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36600 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-7248 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-7248 · Security Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2544 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-7248 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-7248 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-8fqx-7pv4-3jwm · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/rails/rails · Note
• https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/099a98e9b7108dae3e0f78b207e0a7dc5913bd1a · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/28/1 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/38915 · Note