Ruby on Rails Bug Lets Remote Users Bypass Cross-Site Request Forgery Protection
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1025060 |
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id/1025060
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CVE Reference:
CVE-2011-0447
(Links to External Site)
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Date: Feb 10 2011
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Impact:
Disclosure of user information, Execution of arbitrary code via network, Modification of user information
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Fix Available: Yes Vendor Confirmed: Yes
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Version(s): 2.1.0 to prior to 2.3.11, 3.0 prior to 3.0.4
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Description:
A vulnerability was reported in Ruby on Rails. A remote user can bypass cross-site request forgery protection.
A remote user can exploit certain combinations of browser plugins and HTTP redirects to cause the target user's browser to make cross-domain requests and bypass the built-in cross-site request forgery (CSRF) protection.
Felix Grobert of the Google Security Team reported this vulnerability.
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Impact:
A remote user can bypass cross-site request forgery protection.
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Solution:
The vendor has issued a fix (2.3.11, 3.0.4).
The vendor's advisory is available at:
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/2/8/csrf-protection-bypass-in-ruby-on-rails
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Vendor URL: weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/2/8/csrf-protection-bypass-in-ruby-on-rails (Links to External Site)
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Cause:
Input validation error
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Underlying OS:
Linux (Any), UNIX (Any), Windows (Any)
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Message History:
None.
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Source Message Contents
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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 05:59:29 +0000
Subject: Ruby on Rails
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http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/2/8/csrf-protection-bypass-in-ruby-on-rails
CVE-2011-0447
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