Vulnerability CVE-2020-5249


Published: 2020-03-02

Description:
In Puma (RubyGem) before 4.3.3 and 3.12.4, if an application using Puma allows untrusted input in an early-hints header, an attacker can use a carriage return character 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-2020-5247, which fixed this vulnerability but only for regular responses. This has been fixed in 4.3.3 and 3.12.4.

Type:

CWE-74

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4/10
2.9/10
8/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
PUMA -> PUMA 

 References:
https://github.com/puma/puma/commit/c22712fc93284a45a93f9ad7023888f3a65524f3
https://github.com/puma/puma/security/advisories/GHSA-33vf-4xgg-9r58
https://github.com/puma/puma/security/advisories/GHSA-84j7-475p-hp8v
https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/HTTP_Response_Splitting

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