CVE-2008-7248 (GCVE-0-2008-7248)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-12-16 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 11:56
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2008-11-18 00:00
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