CVE-2020-8166: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

July 2, 2020 (updated November 20, 2020)

A CSRF vulnerability exists in rails 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.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-8166

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