CVE-2008-7248

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 8.1%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDDec 16

1st PoCDec 14

exploitation probability

8.1%top 6% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

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) protection for requests to applications that rely on this protection, as demonstrated using text/plain.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/33402

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References

http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/browse_thread/thread/d741ee286e36e301?hl=en http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html http://pseudo-flaw.net/content/web-browsers/form-data-encoding-roundup/http://secunia.com/advisories/36600 http://secunia.com/advisories/38915 http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/11/18/potential-circumvention-of-csrf-protection-in-rails-2-1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/28/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/12/02/2 http://www.rorsecurity.info/journal/2008/11/19/circumvent-rails-csrf-protection.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2544