GHSA-cf36-985g-v73c

omniauth-facebook Cross-Site Request Forgery vulnerability

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2013-4562

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
RubyGems	omniauth-facebook	>= 1.4.1, < 1.5.0	1.5.0

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

The omniauth-facebook gem 1.4.1 before 1.5.0 does not properly store the session parameter, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks via the state parameter.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4562 advisory
https://github.com/mkdynamic/omniauth-facebook/commit/ccfcc26fe7e34acbd75ad4a095fd01ce5ff48ee7 web
https://github.com/mkdynamic/omniauth-faceboo package
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/ruby-security-ann/-tJHNlTiPh4/9SJxdEWLIawJ web
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/264 web
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/267 web