GHSA-4G8V-VG43-WPGF

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2023-06-29 15:03 – Updated: 2025-05-05 17:10

Summary

Actionpack has possible cross-site scripting vulnerability via User Supplied Values to redirect_to

Details

The redirect_to method in Rails allows provided values to contain characters which are not legal in an HTTP header value. This results in the potential for downstream services which enforce RFC compliance on HTTP response headers to remove the assigned Location header. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2023-28362.

Versions Affected: All. Not affected: None Fixed Versions: 7.0.5.1, 6.1.7.4

Impact

This introduces the potential for a Cross-site-scripting (XSS) payload to be delivered on the now static redirection page. Note that this both requires user interaction and for a Rails app to be configured to allow redirects to external hosts (defaults to false in Rails >= 7.0.x).

Releases

The FIXED releases are available at the normal locations.

Workarounds

Avoid providing user supplied URLs with arbitrary schemes to the redirect_to method.

Severity

4.0 (Medium)


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

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CVE-2023-28362 (GCVE-0-2023-28362)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-01-09 00:33 – Updated: 2025-05-02 23:02

Summary

The redirect_to method in Rails allows provided values to contain characters which are not legal in an HTTP header value. This results in the potential for downstream services which enforce RFC compliance on HTTP response headers to remove the assigned Location header.

Severity

4 (Medium)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-01-09 21:26 UTC

CWE

CWE-116 - Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output

Assigner

hackerone CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 59/100 over 185 records in the last 180 days details

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/cve-2023-28362-…
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4g8v-vg43-wpgf
https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/1c3f93d1e90…
https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/69e37c84e3f…
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2025050…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Rails	Action Pack	Affected: 7.0.5.1 , < 7.0.5.1 (custom) Affected: 6.1.7.4 , < 6.1.7.4 (custom)

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