Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affecting actionview package, versions <5.2.4.3 >=6.0.0, <6.0.3.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    0.22% (61st percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-ACTIONVIEW-569601
  • published 19 May 2020
  • disclosed 19 May 2020
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade actionview to version 5.2.4.3, 6.0.3.1 or higher.

Overview

actionview is a simple, battle-tested conventions and helpers for building web pages.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF). An attacker might be able to set the href attribute of an anchor tag or the action attribute of a form tag that will trigger a POST action to a cross-origin URL.

This is a regression of CVE-2015-1840.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
5.3 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None
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NVD

6.5 medium
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SUSE

5.4 medium
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Red Hat

7.5 high