# rack-protection gem timing attack vulnerability when validating CSRF token

Advisory record · `GHSA-688c-3x49-6rqj`

- **Identifiers:** `GHSA-688c-3x49-6rqj` · `CVE-2018-1000119`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 5.9 Medium
- **Critical:** No
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-203](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/203.html)
- **Tags:** [Information disclosure](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/info-disclosure.md)
- **Published:** 7 Mar 2018
- **Updated:** 16 Feb 2024
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 7 Mar 2018, 22:22 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

## Affected packages

- `rack-protection` (RubyGems): affected `<1.5.5 || >=2.0.0.beta1, <2.0.0`; fixed in `1.5.5`, `2.0.0`

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our analysis of this Advisory yet. Once a person has reviewed it, this page will say what’s vulnerable, what has to be true for your app to be affected, and how to check.

## Severity and exploitation

- 5.9 Medium, CVSS 3.0: `CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N`, from GitHub Advisory Database

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.024, the 84th percentile, on 11 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

This record came from the full history of the GitHub Advisory Database, published 7 Mar 2018. New records show when each source confirmed them.

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-688c-3x49-6rqj](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-688c-3x49-6rqj)
- [OSV: GHSA-688c-3x49-6rqj](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-688c-3x49-6rqj)
- <https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000119>
- <https://github.com/sinatra/rack-protection/pull/98>
- <https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/commit/8aa6c42ef724f93ae309fb7c5668e19ad547eceb#commitcomment-27964109>
- <https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1060>
- <https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rack-protection/CVE-2018-1000119.yml>
- <https://github.com/sinatra/rack-protection>
- <https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4247>

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.

## Check whether this affects you

A Match means an installed version is in the affected range above. Most don’t affect the app; agentprime hasn’t analysed this one yet.

- With the agentprime MCP server (<https://api.agentprime.io/mcp>), ask your agent to check the project: `check_lockfile` sends a lockfile, `check_packages` a list of installed packages, and both return the Matches and the upgrades that clear them. `get_advisory` returns this record. Setup: <https://agentprime.io/mcp.md>
- In a browser: <https://agentprime.io/check/> reads your lockfile in the browser, never uploading it.
- Whether it touches your code, with file and line: the Claude Code plugin, <https://agentprime.io/plugin.md>
- As JSON: <https://api.agentprime.io/v1/advisories/GHSA-688c-3x49-6rqj>, or `POST https://api.agentprime.io/v1/match` with your packages (<https://agentprime.io/api.md>)

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