CVE-2020-8166 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2020-8166

A CSRF forgery vulnerability exists in rails < 5.2.5, rails...

Vulnerability Description

A CSRF forgery vulnerability exists in rails < 5.2.5, rails < 6.0.4 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

https://github.com/rails/rails
Vulnerable Versions:
Fixed in 5.2.4.3, 6.0.3.1

Timeline

Official Publish: July 2nd, 2020
Last Modified: April 28th, 2026
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

No vector data available

Weaknesses (CWE)