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CSRF Vulnerability in jquery-ujs

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Aug 31, 2020 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 9, 2023

Package

npm jquery-ujs (npm)

Affected versions

<= 1.0.3

Patched versions

1.0.4

Description

Versions 1.0.3 and earlier of jquery-ujs are vulnerable to an information leakage attack that may enable attackers to launch CSRF attacks, as it allows attackers to send CSRF tokens to external domains.

When an attacker controls the href attribute of an anchor tag, or
the action attribute of a form tag triggering a POST action, the attacker can set the
href or action to " https://attacker.com". By prepending a space to the external domain, it causes jQuery to consider it a same origin request, resulting in the user's CSRF token being sent to the external domain.

Recommendation

Upgrade jquery-ujs to version 1.0.4 or later.

References

Reviewed Aug 31, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Aug 31, 2020
Last updated Jan 9, 2023

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

No known CVE

GHSA ID

GHSA-6qqj-rx4w-r3cj

Source code

No known source code
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