Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libwebsockets  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-LIBWEBSOCKETS-5457736
  • published26 Mar 2023
  • disclosed18 May 2020

Introduced: 18 May 2020

CVE-2020-8167  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-352  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:7.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libwebsockets package and not the libwebsockets package as distributed by RHEL.

A CSRF vulnerability exists in rails <= 6.0.3 rails-ujs module that could allow attackers to send CSRF tokens to wrong domains.