CVE-2020-8166
A CSRF forgery vulnerability exists in rails < 5.2.5, rails < 6.0.4 that makes it possible for an attacker to, given a global CSRF token…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 1.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 23% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- YesPublic exploitsa reference or SSVC says so
Description
A CSRF forgery vulnerability exists in rails < 5.2.5, rails < 6.0.4 that makes it possible for an attacker to, given a global CSRF token such as the one present in the authenticity_token meta tag, forge a per-form CSRF token.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: a proof of concept is public.
Show the exploits1
References tagged exploit1 reference
- https://hackerone.com/reports/732415 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferredexploit
Timeline
ID reserved
By hackerone
- 5 months later
· 5 months later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.7% · top 23% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
https://github.com/rails/rails
- affected Fixed in 5.2.4.3, 6.0.3.1
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemsactionpackGHSA-jp5v-5gx4-jmj9 (opens in a new tab)
References
3
- https://hackerone.com/reports/732415 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferredexploit
- https://groups.google.com/g/rubyonrails-security/c/NOjKiGeXUgw (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- DSA-4766 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_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-2020-0429 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-jp5v-5gx4-jmj9 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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