CVE-2021-44528 (GCVE-0-2021-44528)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-01-07 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-04 04:25
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-601 - Open Redirect (CWE-601)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a https://github.com/rails/rails Affected: 6.1.4.2, 6.0.4.2, 7.0.0.rc2
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