CVE-2008-7248

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Summary

CVECVE-2008-7248
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2009-12-16 01:30:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionRuby 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) protection for requests to applications that rely on this protection, as demonstrated using text/plain.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 6.8 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: CWE-20 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Rubyonrails Rails 2.1.0 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 2.1.1 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 2.1.2 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 2.2.0 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 2.2.1 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report: SUSE-SR:2010:006 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com Vendor Advisory
Ruby on Rails Unicode Input Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
oss-security - Re: CVE request: Ruby on Rails: CSRF circumvention (from 2008) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com
Riding Rails: Potential Circumvention of CSRF Protection in Rails 2.1 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 weblog.rubyonrails.org
oss-security - CVE request: Ruby on Rails: CSRF circumvention (from 2008) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com
SUSE Update for Multiple Packages - Advisories - Community af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Potential Circumvention of CSRF Protection in Rails 2.1 - Ruby on Rails: Security | Google Groups af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 groups.google.com
Form Data Encoding Roundup af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 pseudo-flaw.net
Ruby on Rails Security Project - Journal - Circumvent Rails CSRF Protection af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.rorsecurity.info Exploit
CVE-2008-7248 - Red Hat Customer Portal MITRE access.redhat.com
544329 – (CVE-2008-7248) CVE-2008-7248 rubygem-actionpack: Potential CSRF protection circumvention MITRE bugzilla.redhat.com
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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