The request phase of the OmniAuth Ruby gem (1.9.1 and earlier) is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery when used as part of the Ruby…

Description

The request phase of the OmniAuth Ruby gem (1.9.1 and earlier) is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery when used as part of the Ruby on Rails framework, allowing accounts to be connected without user intent, user interaction, or feedback to the user. This permits a secondary account to be able to sign into the web application as the primary account.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.5% · top 25% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.

Weakness

• CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) (CWE-352) (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-352 and its CVEs

Affected products

• omniauth ruby gem

  • affected All versions

Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

• RubyGemsomniauthGHSA-ww4x-rwq6-qpgf (opens in a new tab)

References (4)

• https://github.com/omniauth/omniauth/pull/809 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://github.com/omniauth/omniauth-rails/pull/1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20150526 CVE Request: CSRF vulnerability in OmniAuth request phase (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• https://github.com/omniauth/omniauth/wiki/Resolving-CVE-2015-9284 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisory GHSA-ww4x-rwq6-qpgf (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2015-9284](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2015-9284.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2015-9284)

Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 08:43 UTC.