CVE-2020-8166: 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…

PriorityP420medium4.3CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRNUIRSUCNILAN

EPSS

1.67%

74.2th percentile

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.

Affected

11 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
actionpack_project	actionpack	>= 5.0.0 < 5.2.4.3	5.2.4.3
actionpack_project	actionpack	>= 6.0.0 < 6.0.3.1	6.0.3.1
debian	debian_linux	—	—
debian	rails	< rails 2:5.2.4.3+dfsg-1 (bookworm)	rails 2:5.2.4.3+dfsg-1 (bookworm)
https	github.com_rails_rails	—	—
rubyonrails	rails	< 5.2.4.3	5.2.4.3
rubyonrails	rails	>= 0 < 2:5.2.4.3+dfsg-1	2:5.2.4.3+dfsg-1
rubyonrails	rails	>= 0 < 2:5.2.4.3+dfsg-1	2:5.2.4.3+dfsg-1
rubyonrails	rails	>= 0 < 2:5.2.4.3+dfsg-1	2:5.2.4.3+dfsg-1
rubyonrails	rails	>= 0 < 2:5.2.4.3+dfsg-1	2:5.2.4.3+dfsg-1
rubyonrails	rails	>= 6.0.0 < 6.0.3.1	6.0.3.1

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.14.3MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

nvdv2.04.3MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

osv4.3MEDIUM

vendor_debian4.3MEDIUM

vendor_redhat4.3MEDIUM

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