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GSD-2019-16109

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2019-09-08 00:00
Details
Devise before 4.7.1 confirms accounts upon receiving a request with a blank confirmation_token, if a database record has a blank value in the confirmation_token column. However, there is no scenario within Devise itself in which such database records would exist.
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CVE-2019-16109
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