6.8 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
6.8 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
72.5%
Ruby on Rails 2.1.x, 2.2.x, and 2.3.x before 2.3.11, and 3.x before 3.0.4, does not properly validate HTTP requests that contain an X-Requested-With header, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks via forged (1) AJAX or (2) API requests that leverage βcombinations of browser plugins and HTTP redirects,β a related issue to CVE-2011-0696.
secunia.com/advisories/43274
secunia.com/advisories/43666
weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/2/8/csrf-protection-bypass-in-ruby-on-rails
www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2247
www.securityfocus.com/bid/46291
www.securitytracker.com/id?1025060
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0587
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0877
groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/c22ea1668c0d181c?dmode=source&output=gplain
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/057650.html
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055074.html
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/055088.html