CVE-2008-7248
Ruby on Rails 2.1 before 2.1.3 and 2.2.x before 2.2.2 does not verify tokens for requests with certain content types, which allows remote…
- 6.8MediumCVSS base score
- 8.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 5.2% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Ruby on Rails 2.1 before 2.1.3 and 2.2.x before 2.2.2 does not verify tokens for requests with certain content types, which allows remote attackers to bypass cross-site request forgery (CSRF) protection for requests to applications that rely on this protection, as demonstrated using text/plain.
Public exploit
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Ruby on Rails 2.3.5 - 'protect_from_forgery' Cross-Site Request Forgery (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 33402remote, linuxpublished 14 Dec 2009Verified
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Timeline
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- 5 days later
· 5 days later
Published
- 15 years later
· 15 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 8.1% · top 5.2% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemsactionpackGHSA-8fqx-7pv4-3jwm (opens in a new tab)
References
10
- [oss-security] 20091128 CVE request: Ruby on Rails: CSRF circumvention (from 2008) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://www.rorsecurity.info/journal/2008/11/19/circumvent-rails-csrf-protection.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 36600 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://pseudo-flaw.net/content/web-browsers/form-data-encoding-roundup/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/11/18/potential-circumvention-of-csrf-protection-in-rails-2-1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ADV-2009-2544 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/browse_thread/thread/d741ee286e36e301?hl=en (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2010:006 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20091202 Re: CVE request: Ruby on Rails: CSRF circumvention (from 2008) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 38915 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2017-0192 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-8fqx-7pv4-3jwm (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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