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CVE-2013-4593: Access token security vulnerability

December 11, 2019

The package omniauth-facebook supports passing an access token directly in the URL. Because of that, an attacker may be able to authenticate as another user by passing a valid access token obtained from Facebook for another app.

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Affected versions

All versions up to 1.5.0

Fixed versions

  • 1.5.1

Solution

You should change your integration to use one of the secure methods using either a signed request or the code flow or upgrade to latest (1.5.1 is not yet released).

Impact 7.5 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

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Weakness

  • CWE-287: Improper Authentication

Source file

gem/omniauth-facebook/CVE-2013-4593.yml

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