CVE-2020-8166 (GCVE-0-2020-8166)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-07-02 18:35
Modified
2026-04-28 15:45
Severity ?
4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-352 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) ()
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a https://github.com/rails/rails Version: Fixed in 5.2.4.3, 6.0.3.1
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