Authentication Bypass Affecting omniauth-facebook package, versions < 1.5.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.56% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RUBY-OMNIAUTHFACEBOOK-20118
  • published13 Nov 2013
  • disclosed13 Nov 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Nov 2013

CVE-2013-4593  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-592  (opens in a new tab)

Overview

omniauth-facebook is a Facebook OAuth2 Strategy for OmniAuth.

omniauth-facebook Gem for Ruby contains a flaw that may allow a remote attacker to bypass authentication and authenticate as another user.

Details

This version of omniauth-facebook supports passing of the access token via the URL. This may allow a remote attacker to bypass authentication and authenticate as another user.

CVSS Scores

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