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CVE-2020-8166

MEDIUM
4.3CVSS
Published: 2020-07-02
Updated: 2024-11-21
AI Analysis

Description

A CSRF forgery vulnerability exists in rails < 5.2.5, rails < 6.0.4 that makes it possible for an attacker to, given a global CSRF token such as the one present in the authenticity_token meta tag, forge a per-form CSRF token.

CVSS Metrics

Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Attack Vector
network
Complexity
low
Privileges
none
User Action
required
Scope
unchanged
Confidentiality
none
Integrity
low
Availability
none
Weaknesses
CWE-352CWE-352

Metadata

Primary Vendor
RUBYONRAILS
Published
7/2/2020
Last Modified
11/21/2024
Source
NIST NVD
Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.

Affected Products

rubyonrails : railsrubyonrails : railsdebian : debian_linux

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