CVE-2008-7248
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8EPSS 8.1%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 8.1% (95th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2017-0192)
- Published
- December 16, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2017-0192 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
- rubyonrails / rails
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(Vendor Advisory)
- 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(Exploit)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2544(Vendor Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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