administrate vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery

MEDIUM 5.4CVE-2016-3098 · GHSA-cc8c-26rj-v2vx · Published 05/08/2022 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2016-3098 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.4) vulnerability affecting administrate, administrate (thoughtbot).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.37%, higher than 31.0% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 0.1.5 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
administrate RubyGems	`< 0.1.5`	`0.1.5`
administrate thoughtbot	`< 0.1.5`	`0.1.5`

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in administrate 0.1.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to hijack the user's OAuth autorization code.

NVD description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in administrate 0.1.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to hijack the user's OAuth autorization code.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3098 · ADVISORY
rubysec/ruby-advisory-db · WEB
thoughtbot/administrate · PACKAGE
seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/0 · WEB

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