Vulnerability CVE-2021-44528


Published: 2022-01-10

Description:
A open redirect vulnerability exists in Action Pack >= 6.0.0 that could allow an attacker to craft a "X-Forwarded-Host" headers in combination with certain "allowed host" formats can cause the Host Authorization middleware in Action Pack to redirect users to a malicious website.

Type:

CWE-601

(URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect'))

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5.8/10
4.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
None
Affected software
Rubyonrails -> Rails 

 References:
https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/0fccfb9a3097a9c4260c791f1a40b128517e7815

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