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GHSA-w542-cpp9-r3g7

Field Test CSRF vulnerability

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2020-16252

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
RubyGems field_test >= 0.2.0, < 0.4.0 0.4.0

Details

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

The Field Test dashboard is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery (CSRF) with non-session based authentication methods in versions v0.2.0 through v0.3.2. ## Impact The Field Test dashboard is vulnerable to CSRF with non-session based authentication methods, like basic authentication. Session-based authentication methods (like Devise's default authentication) are not affected. A CSRF attack works by getting an authorized user to visit a malicious website and then performing requests on behalf of the user. In this instance, a single endpoint is affected, which allows for changing the variant assigned to a user. All users running an affected release should upgrade immediately. ## Technical Details Field Test uses the `protect_from_forgery` method from Rails to prevent CSRF. However, this defaults to `:null_session`, which has no effect on non-session based authentication methods. This has been changed to `protect_from_forgery with: :exception`.

References

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