MEDIUM
rubygem-actionpack: Potential CSRF protection circumvention
Published Dec 16, 2009
6.8
MEDIUMCVSS 2.0
EPSS 8.08%
Description
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.
Affected products
No data.
OR
- 2.1.0
- 2.1.1
- 2.1.2
- 2.2.0
- 2.2.1
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
6.8 MEDIUM NVD
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
8.08% 0.08080
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
EPSS probability 0.08080
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (13 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 8.08% (0.08080) | 94.64th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 8.08% (0.08080) | 94.05th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 30, 2025 | 11.41% (0.11409) | 92.94th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 29, 2025 | 26.57% (0.26572) | 94.11th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 11.41% (0.11409) | 93.03th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 17, 2024 | 19.53% (0.19531) | 96.29th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 31, 2023 | 15.49% (0.15487) | 94.99th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 13.42% (0.13422) | 94.64th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 11.00% (0.10995) | 94.86th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 13, 2023 | 11.00% (0.10995) | 94.69th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 3, 2023 | 12.57% (0.12567) | 95.36th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 11.00% (0.10995) | 94.44th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 11.00% (0.10995) | 88.52th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
Weaknesses (2)
References (25)
- http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/browse_thread/thread/d741ee286e36e301?hl=en x_refsource_MISC
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://pseudo-flaw.net/content/web-browsers/form-data-encoding-roundup/ x_refsource_MISC
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36600 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38915 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/11/18/potential-circumvention-of-csrf-protection-in-rails-2-1 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/28/1 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/12/02/2 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- http://www.rorsecurity.info/journal/2008/11/19/circumvent-rails-csrf-protection.html x_refsource_MISCExploit
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2544 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENVendor Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-7248 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544329 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8fqx-7pv4-3jwm Advisory
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/099a98e9b7108dae3e0f78b207e0a7dc5913bd1a
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/actionpack/CVE-2008-7248.yml
- https://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/browse_thread/thread/d741ee286e36e301?hl=en
- https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-7248
- https://pseudo-flaw.net/content/web-browsers/form-data-encoding-roundup/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20090906010200/https://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2544
- https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/11/18/potential-circumvention-of-csrf-protection-in-rails-2-1
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-7248
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/28/1
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/12/02/2
- https://www.rorsecurity.info/journal/2008/11/19/circumvent-rails-csrf-protection.html
Change history (0)
No recorded changes yet.
Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner redhat
Published Dec 16, 2009
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Dec 11, 2009
Link CVE-2008-7248
CISA Vulnrichment
GHSA-8FQX-7PV4-3JWM Updated n/a