High severity · published Feb 28, 2020
CVE-2020-5247
In Puma (RubyGem) before 4.3.2 and before 3.12.3, if an application using Puma allows untrusted input in a response header, an attacker can use newline characters (i.e
7.5
CVSS
2.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In Puma (RubyGem) before 4.3.2 and before 3.12.3, if an application using Puma allows untrusted input in a response header, an attacker can use newline characters (i.e. `CR`, `LF` or`/r`, `/n`) to end the header and inject malicious content, such as additional headers or an entirely new response body. This vulnerability is known as HTTP Response Splitting. While not an attack in itself, response splitting is a vector for several other attacks, such as cross-site scripting (XSS). This is related to CVE-2019-16254, which fixed this vulnerability for the WEBrick Ruby web server. This has been fixed in versions 4.3.2 and 3.12.3 by checking all headers for line endings and rejecting headers with those characters.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.5% · higher than 85% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
30; 31; 32 · source: NVD
PU
Puma · Puma
through 3.12.3; 4.0.0 through 4.3.2 · source: NVD
RU
Ruby · Ruby-lang
through 2.3.0; 2.4.0 through 2.4.7; 2.5.0 through 2.5.6; 2.6.0 through 2.6.4; 2.7.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-5247
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-5247
Mitigation
https://github.com/puma/puma/security/advisories/GHSA-84j7-475p-hp8v
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00034.html
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BMJ3CGZ3DLBJ5WUUKMI5ZFXFJQMXJZIK/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DIHVO3CQMU7BZC7FCTSRJ33YDNS3GFPK/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NJ3LL5F5QADB6LM46GXZETREAKZMQNRD/
Third Party Advisory
https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/HTTP_Response_Splitting
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