jquery_ujs.js in jquery-rails before 3.1.3 and 4.x before 4.0.4 and rails.js in jquery-ujs before 1.0.4, as used with Ruby on Rails 3.x and 4.x, allow remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy, and trigger transmission of a CSRF token to a different-domain web server, via a leading space character in a URL within an attribute value.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - jquery_ujs.js in jquery-rails before 3.1.3 and 4.x before 4.0.4 and rails.js in jquery-ujs before 1.0.4,
    as used with Ruby on Rails 3.x and 4.x, allow remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy, and
    trigger transmission of a CSRF token to a different-domain web server, via a leading space character in a
    URL within an attribute value. (CVE-2015-1840)

rubygem-jquery-rails was updated to fix one security issue.

This security issue was fixed :

  - CVE-2015-1840: CSRF Vulnerability in jquery-ujs and     jquery-rails (bsc#934795).

Security fix for CVE-2015-1840

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Ruby on Rails blog :

Rails 3.2.22, 4.1.11 and 4.2.2 have been released, along with web console and jquery-rails plugins and Rack 1.5.4 and 1.6.2.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
422264	SCA: security update for jquery-rails, jquery-ujs (GHSA-4whc-pp4x-9pf3)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	medium
422264	SCA: security update for jquery-rails, jquery-ujs (GHSA-4whc-pp4x-9pf3)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	medium
84870	openSUSE Security Update : rubygem-jquery-rails (openSUSE-2015-501)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
84458	Fedora 22 : rubygem-jquery-rails-3.1.0-3.fc22 (2015-10258)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
84454	Fedora 21 : rubygem-jquery-rails-3.1.0-3.fc21 (2015-10144)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
84255	FreeBSD : rubygem-rails -- multiple vulnerabilities (eb8a8978-8dd5-49ce-87f4-49667b2166dd)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2015-1840

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Tenable Plugins

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