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Cross-site request forgery in rails_admin

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Aug 8, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Nov 8, 2023

Package

bundler rails_admin (RubyGems)

Affected versions

>= 1.0.0, < 1.1.1

Patched versions

1.1.1

Description

rails_admin ruby gem <v1.1.1 is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks. Non-GET methods were not validating CSRF tokens and, as a result, an attacker could hypothetically gain access to the application administrative endpoints exposed by the gem.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jul 5, 2018
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Aug 8, 2018
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Nov 8, 2023

Severity

High
8.8
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

0.508%
(77th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2016-10522

GHSA ID

GHSA-pxqr-8v54-m2hj

Source code

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