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CVE-2011-0447

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Publication date:
14/02/2011
Last modified:
11/04/2025

Description

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.80 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
6.80
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.3.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.3.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.0:beta:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.0:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:3.0.0:beta3:*:*:*:*:*:*

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