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Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affecting actionview package, versions <5.2.4.3 >=6.0.0, <6.0.3.1

0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity Proof of concept
    EPSS 0.31% (70th percentile)
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NVD
6.5 medium
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SUSE
5.4 medium
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Red Hat
7.5 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-ACTIONVIEW-569601
  • published 19 May 2020
  • disclosed 19 May 2020
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 19 May 2020

CVE-2020-8167 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-352 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade actionview to version 5.2.4.3, 6.0.3.1 or higher.

Overview

actionview is a simple, battle-tested conventions and helpers for building web pages.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF). An attacker might be able to set the href attribute of an anchor tag or the action attribute of a form tag that will trigger a POST action to a cross-origin URL.

This is a regression of CVE-2015-1840.