CVE-2020-5216 MEDIUM

CVE-2020-5216: Limited header injection when using dynamic overrides with user input in RubyGems secure_headers

Vendor Twitter
Product secure_headers
Weakness CWE-113 · HTTP response splitting
Published January 23, 2020
Last update August 4, 2024

CVSS base score

4.4/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required Low
User interaction Required
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

In Secure Headers (RubyGem secure_headers), a directive injection vulnerability is present in versions before 3.9.0, 5.2.0, and 6.3.0. If user-supplied input was passed into append/override_content_security_policy_directives, a newline could be injected leading to limited header injection. Upon seeing a newline in the header, rails will silently create a new Content-Security-Policy header with the remaining value of the original string. It will continue to create new headers for each newline. This has been fixed in 6.3.0, 5.2.0, and 3.9.0.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

January 23, 2020 CVE published
August 4, 2024 Record updated