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I am running a Rails 4 app in semi-production and I constantly get exceptions from crawler bots that use a HEAD HTTP method, which causes the CSRF protection to kick in. Shouldn''t HEAD requests normally be handled like GET requests? I am not sure if I''m just being stupid or that hit is a bug somewhere. Michiel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" gr...

I''m setting up a Paypal IPN listener and need the create action to not use rails'' default CSRF protection. I''ve got that working fine & test it actually works with cucumber (where I''ve turned CSRF back on, since it''s full-stack testing) but would like my controller spec to mention the need for protect_from_forgery :except => [:create] (and fail when it'...

Hi all, I think CSFR protection broke in rails 2.3.11. As in: it''s turned off now. I tried this in rails 2.3.10 and in 2.3.11 and 2.3.11 seems broken. >rails csrftest >cd csrftest >script/generate scaffold post title:string >rake db:migrate now I visit /posts/new in my browser, use firebug to delete or change the authenticity token, and submit the form. rails 2.3.11: all fine, new post saved rails 2.3.10: ActionController::InvalidAuthenticityToken...

Hello all, I''ve been trying to diagnose an issue with CSRF and Firefox specifically. I''ve got an ajax based form, using UJS (yes, I have csrf_meta_tag in my layout and I''ve tried adding the X-CSRF-Token header to the ajax beforeSend events without any luck)... The form just posts some data to an ajax method that creates, saves, and sets t...

...aware of this problem? How many actually use ActiveRecordStore instead of CookieStore? If the latter is by far the most common mode, then we believe that default should be ActiveRecordStore, as it is much less susceptible to this problem. (Session ids are usually not stateful in a bad way.) 2. The CSRF protection, at least in Rails 2.2.2, seems too weak. Rails comes close to implementing a fix, by embedding and checking hidden tokens (for POST requests). But it is well-known that for such a fix to work, the tokens should be session-specific. Unfortunately, we found that the implementation in 2.2....

...ut also want to enable people to sign in via a modal dialog sign in form. I could have a setup in which when a user lands on the cached homepage, an Ajax GET request pulls in the whole login form so that there is a fresh authenticity token. That said, besides the additional hit to the server, the CSRF token in the head area of the page could be different (left over in the page cache from another user). I''m guessing that loading a form like this through ajax is not advisable, but since it works and most people hit the site without signing in, I''m wondring why not just load the...

Hi all, My team and I are finding ourselves a little in the dark about the "CSRF Protection Bypass in Ruby on Rails" vulnerability that was announced yesterday - http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/2/8/csrf-protection-bypass-in-ruby-on-rails 1. Where is the complete Advisory? The Impact section is very unclear. Looking at the comment in the 2.3 patch mentions "Flash a...

Hi, I just noticed that the auto_complete plugin does not work with the CSRF protection in Rails 2.0. I''ve patched the plugin, but I''m wondering if people would like to see the official plugin fixed. If so, speak up and I will write some tests and submit the patch. Krishna --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message be...

I''m going to go out on a limb here and say the new CSRF protection in Rails is flawed. Why? Forget about caching if you care to use it. Consider the following: <% cache do %> <%= link_to_remote "Add To Favorites", :url => {:controller => "favorites", :action => "create", "movie_id" => 2} %&...

When you generate a default Rails app, it puts this in application.html.erb: <%= csrf_meta_tags %> It does this so the remote forms can be submitted--i.e., so JavaScript can submit a form. When jquery-rails is about to submit a form, it looks for the <meta> tags named "csrf-param" and "csrf-token" and from them it constructs a hidden "authentic...

...e server makes sure the username & password match, then it does session[:user_id] = user.id, creating the session. But before I send back the login response, request.session_options[:id] is nil, so I seem to have no way of telling the client was his session id is. I did manage to get the CSRF token sent with the login response, which the client sends on subsequent requests. On these subsequent requests, the session id is actually found in request.session_options[:id], so it must be working, just not in the order I expected. So maybe I''m misunderstanding how this is suppose...

Hallo, I want to test the csrf protection of my application but forgery protection is not working with jquery ajax request. I have used Unobtrusive Javascript with jquery I have removed the <%= csrf_meta_tag %> so that my application do not include authenticity token. In my view I have the following code $(function () {...

...ls again after a multi-year stint of mod_perl jobs, which might grant me some newbie-indemnity for the time being - but I''ve found an issue I think warrants discussion. As discussed here - http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/RequestForgeryProtection/ClassMethods.html - the CSRF protection feature does not kick in for GET requests. This is under the assumption that GET requests are idempotent. There is a (big, IMO) problem with this: unless the controller action which receives the POST request manually validates that the request is a POST as expected, it is wide open to C...

Hi all, I stuck a little bit of information on CSRF on the wiki (http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/show/HowToAvoidCrossSiteRequestForgery) and created a "Security Concerns" page from the home page (http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/show/Security+Concerns) - it would be good to have a single point of information for all know security holes...

...you would have noticed, we have now had 3 CVE-nominated security issues for SWAT in the past couple of years. At the same time, while I know many of our users use SWAT, we just don't have anybody to maintain it inside the Samba Team. Kai has made a valiant effort to at least apply the XSS and CSRF guidelines when folks make security reports, but by his own admission he isn't a web developer - none of us are! There are many other parts of Samba that have not been substantially maintained in years, but few have the level of security exposure that SWAT does (most are bits of library and ut...

Hi All, A co-worker passed this info on to me: http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/google_web_accelerator_hey_not_so_fast_an_alert_for_web_app_designers.php The Skinny: Google has a "Web Accelerator" that pre-caches pages by following url''s. If you have any plain/simple URL''s that don''t take paramaters (like what often happens in rails apps), it will try to

I have the following in my view: <% form_tag :action => ''detail'' do %> Search for Sales Order Number:<br /> <%= text_field_with_auto_complete :sales_order, :id %>&nbsp; <%= submit_tag " Go "%> <% end %> And I have the following in my controller: auto_complete_for :sales_order, :id This worked fine in 1.5, but

Hi, http://apidock.com/rails/ActionController/RequestForgeryProtection only maintains one CSRF token at a time. When a user visits some site, he gets a new token in the session. He then might open a linked site of the same rails app in a new browser tab (maybe some info he''d like to read), and again he will get a new token. Then he changes to the first tab again and submits a fo...

I''m using rails3. It does not seem to check the authenticity_token when doing a POST using Ajax. I traced this to: module ActionDispatch class Request < Rack::Request ..... def forgery_whitelisted? get? || xhr? || content_mime_type.nil? || ! content_mime_type.verify_request? end end so you don''t check if its a get? or a xhr? (ie ajax request). Is this correct? --

Hello, I''ve been testing my project with some manual tests. One of them consists of deleting cookies ("clean personal info" in firefox) just before submit the login form. Then, I get an error. The error message is: ActionController::InvalidAuthenticityToken in SessionsController#create I''m on Rails 2.0.2 with restful_authentication plugin. I''m using