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CVE-2008-7248

33
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-7248 describes a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) bypass vulnerability in Ruby on Rails versions 2.1 before 2.1.3 and 2.2.x before 2.2.2. Attackers can exploit this by sending requests with specific content types, such as text/plain, to circumvent CSRF protection. This medium-complexity network attack could lead to partial compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no active exploitation or Metasploit/Nuclei modules are noted, an ExploitDB entry exists for a related Rails version, and the vulnerability has seen minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
8.08%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
94.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-33402 · Dec 14, 2009
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0808 is in the 93rd percentile among its peer group of 19,956 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: actionpackFixed in: 2.1.3
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: actionpackFixed in: 2.2.2

Vendor Advisories (2)

rubygemsGHSA-8fqx-7pv4-3jwmmedium

Improper Input Validation in actionpack

Oct 24, 2017
redhatCVE-2008-7248Low

rubygem-actionpack: Potential CSRF protection circumvention

Nov 18, 2008

References

groups.google.com / group/rubyonrails-security/browse_thread/thread/d741ee286e36e301
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00004.html
pseudo-flaw.net / content/web-browsers/form-data-encoding-roundup
secunia.com / advisories/36600
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/38915
weblog.rubyonrails.org / 2008/11/18/potential-circumvention-of-csrf-protection-in-rails-2-1
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2009/11/28/1
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2009/12/02/2
rorsecurity.info / journal/2008/11/19/circumvent-rails-csrf-protection.html
Exploit
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/2544
Vendor Advisory