Bug 677631 (CVE-2011-0447)

Summary:	CVE-2011-0447 rubygem-actionpack: CSRF flaws due improper validation of HTTP headers containing X-Requested-With header
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	hbrock, mastahnke, sseago, vanmeeuwen+fedora, vondruch
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Bug Depends On:	677628, 677629
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2011-02-15 12:09:26 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2011-0447 to
the following vulnerability:

Ruby on Rails 2.1.x, 2.2.x, and 2.3.x before 2.3.11, and 3.x before
3.0.4, does not properly validate HTTP requests that contain an
X-Requested-With header, which makes it easier for remote attackers to
conduct cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks via forged (1) AJAX
or (2) API requests that leverage "combinations of browser plugins and
HTTP redirects," a related issue to CVE-2011-0696.

References:
[1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-0447
[2] http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/c22ea1668c0d181c?dmode=source&output=gplain
[3] http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/2/8/csrf-protection-bypass-in-ruby-on-rails

Upstream patch:
[4] http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/assets/2011/2/8/2-3-csrf.patch
    (against v2.3 series)

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-02-15 12:12:13 UTC

This issue affects the versions of the rubygem-actionpack package,
as shipped with Fedora release of 13 and 14.

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This issue affects the version of the rubygem-actionpack package,
as present within EPEL-5 repository.

Please schedule an update.

Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-02-15 12:12:53 UTC

Created rubygem-actionpack tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 677628]
Affects: epel-5 [bug 677629]

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2014-11-16 04:17:03 UTC

rubygem-actionpack-2.3.18-1.el5, rubygem-activerecord-2.3.18-1.el5, rubygem-activesupport-2.3.18-1.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.