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CVE-2018-1000119

rack-protection: Timing attack in authenticity_token.rb

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

3.7

CVSS 3.0

Review impact separately from score.

Published · May 25, 2015

Updated · June 27, 2026

Description

Sinatra rack-protection versions 1.5.4 and 2.0.0.rc3 and earlier contains a timing attack vulnerability in the CSRF token checking that can result in signatures can be exposed. This attack appear to be exploitable via network connectivity to the ruby application. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.5.5 and 2.0.0.

Statement

This issue affects the versions of rubygem-rack-protection as shipped with Red Hat Satellite 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having security impact of Low. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 3.7
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

CWE-385 · Covert Timing Channel