ubuntu-cve-2020-8166
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2020-07-02 19:15
Modified
2026-05-04 08:31
Summary
Details

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.

Severity
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
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  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "A CSRF forgery vulnerability exists in rails \u003c 5.2.5, rails \u003c 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.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2020-8166",
  "modified": "2026-05-04T08:31:32Z",
  "published": "2020-07-02T19:15:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-8166"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2020/5/18/Rails-5-2-4-3-and-6-0-3-1-have-been-released"
    },
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    },
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      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-8166"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2020-8166"
  ]
}



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