CVE-2015-1840 jquery-rails and jquery-ujs subject to Exposure of Sensitive Information

What is CVE-2015-1840?

CVE-2015-1840 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 26 Jul 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-1840?

6 open source packages ship an affected version, including jquery-rails and jquery-ujs. It affects 4 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Opensuse Opensuse, Rubyonrails Jquery-Rails, Rubyonrails Jquery-Ujs.

How do I fix CVE-2015-1840?

Upgrade jquery-rails to a fixed version for your release line: 3.1.3 or 4.0.4.

Is CVE-2015-1840 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-1840 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-1840, GHSA-4whc-pp4x-9pf3, openSUSE-SU-2024:10512-1, openSUSE-SU-2024:11334-1, openSUSE-SU-2024:12144-1, openSUSE-SU-2024:13159-1 and 3 more.