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CVE-2017-0909: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

November 16, 2017 (updated October 9, 2019)

The private_address_check ruby gem is vulnerable to a bypass due to an incomplete denylist of common private/local network addresses used to prevent server-side request forgery.

References

  • github.com/jtdowney/private_address_check/pull/3
  • hackerone.com/reports/288950
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-0909

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Affected versions

All versions before 0.4.1

Fixed versions

  • 0.4.1

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.4.1 or above.

Impact 9.8 CRITICAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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Source file

gem/private_address_check/CVE-2017-0909.yml

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