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

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.08% (37th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUBY-ACTIONVIEW-569601
  • published19 May 2020
  • disclosed19 May 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 May 2020

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

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.

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