Fwd: [Hacking] Potential Circumvention of CSRF Protection in Rails 2.1

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Potential Circumvention of CSRF Protection in Rails
2.1http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RidingRails/~3/457453697/potential-circumvention-of-csrf-protection-in-rails-2-1
via Riding Rails - home http://weblog.rubyonrails.com/ by michael on
11/18/08

There is a bug in all 2.1.x versions of Ruby on Rails which affects the
effectiveness of the CSRF protection given by protect_from_forgery.

By design rails does not does not perform token verification on requests
with certain content types not typically generated by browsers.
Unfortunately this list also included ‘text/plain’ which can be
generated by
browsers.
Impact

Requests can be crafted which will circumvent the CSRF protection
entirely.
Rails does not parse the parameters provided with these requests, but
that
may not be enough to protect your application.
Affected Versions

  • All releases in the 2.1 series
  • All 2.2 Pre Releases

Fixes

The upcoming 2.1.3 and 2.2.2 releases will contain a fix for this issue.
Interim Workarounds

Users of 2.1.x releases are advised to insert the following code into a
file
in config/initializers/

Mime::Type.unverifiable_types.delete(:text)

Users of Edge Rails after 2.2.1, should upgrade to the latest code in
2-2-stable.

The patch for the 2.1.x series is available on
githubhttp://github.com/rails/rails/commit/099a98e9b7108dae3e0f78b207e0a7dc5913bd1a.
This will also apply cleanly to 2.2 pre-releases prior to this
changesethttp://github.com/rails/rails/commit/f1ad8b48aae3ee26613b3e77bc0056e120096846released
on Thursday November 13th at 11:19:53 2008
CET. Users with edge-rails checkouts after that date, are advised to
upgrade
to the latest code in 2-2-stable.

Things you can do from here: