Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affecting rubygem-rake package, versions <0:0.9.2.2-41.el7sat


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.22% (61st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-RUBYGEMRAKE-5394396
  • published26 Mar 2023
  • disclosed18 May 2020

Introduced: 18 May 2020

CVE-2020-8166  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-352  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 rubygem-rake to version 0:0.9.2.2-41.el7sat or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2021:1313.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rubygem-rake package and not the rubygem-rake package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1