CVE-2015-1840

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2015-1840  

A flaw was found in the way rubygem-jquery-rails filtered CSRF tokens from HTTP requests. An attacker able to control the href attribute of an anchor tag or the action attribute of a form tag, could use this flaw to force an application to send a request that includes a CSRF token to an attacker-specified site, thus leaking the CSRF token.

A flaw was found in the way rubygem-jquery-rails filtered CSRF tokens from HTTP requests. An attacker able to control the href attribute of an anchor tag or the action attribute of a form tag, could use this flaw to force an application to send a request that includes a CSRF token to an attacker-specified site, thus leaking the CSRF token.

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CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1 ruby193-rubygem-jquery-rails Will not fix
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux rh-ror41-rubygem-jquery-rails Will not fix
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux ror40-rubygem-jquery-rails Will not fix
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux ruby193-rubygem-jquery-rails Will not fix
Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2 ruby193-rubygem-jquery-rails Will not fix

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Ruby on Rails project for reporting this issue.