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.
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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: hackerone

Published: 2020-07-02T18:35:17.000Z

Updated: 2026-04-28T15:45:49.012Z

Reserved: 2020-01-28T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-8166

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T09:48:25.645Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-07-02T19:15:12.513

Modified: 2026-04-28T16:16:05.280

Link: CVE-2020-8166

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2020-05-18T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2020-8166 - Bugzilla