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Security Advisories: MDE2OlNlY3VyaXR5QWR2aXNvcnlHSFNBLXhxNWotZ3c3Zi1qZ2o4

CSRF Vulnerability in rails-ujs

There is a vulnerability in rails-ujs that allows attackers to send CSRF tokens to wrong domains.

Versions Affected: rails <= 6.0.3
Not affected: Applications which don't use rails-ujs.
Fixed Versions: rails >= 5.2.4.3, rails >= 6.0.3.1

Impact

This is a regression of CVE-2015-1840.

In the scenario where an attacker might be able to control the href attribute of an anchor tag or the action attribute of a form tag that will trigger a POST action, the attacker can set the href or action to a cross-origin URL, and the CSRF token will be sent.

Workarounds

To work around this problem, change code that allows users to control the href attribute of an anchor tag or the action attribute of a form tag to filter the user parameters.

For example, code like this:

link_to params

to code like this:

link_to filtered_params

def filtered_params
  # Filter just the parameters that you trust
end

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xq5j-gw7f-jgj8
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Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: Moderate
Classification: General
Published: almost 4 years ago
Updated: 8 months ago

CVSS Score: 6.5
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Identifiers: GHSA-xq5j-gw7f-jgj8, CVE-2020-8167
References:

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8167
• https://hackerone.com/reports/189878
• https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/actionview/CVE-2020-8167.yml
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rubyonrails-security/x9DixQDG9a0
• https://groups.google.com/g/rubyonrails-security/c/x9DixQDG9a0
• https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4766
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xq5j-gw7f-jgj8

Blast Radius: 37.6

Affected Packages