CVE-2020-5217

In Secure Headers (RubyGem secure_headers), a directive injection vulnerability is present in versions before 3.8.0, 5.1.0, and 6.2.0. If user-supplied input was passed into append/override_content_security_policy_directives, a semicolon could be injected leading to directive injection. This could be used to e.g. override a script-src directive. Duplicate directives are ignored and the first one wins. The directives in secure_headers are sorted alphabetically so they pretty much all come before script-src. A previously undefined directive would receive a value even if SecureHeaders::OPT_OUT was supplied. The fixed versions will silently convert the semicolons to spaces and emit a deprecation warning when this happens. This will result in innocuous browser console messages if being exploited/accidentally used. In future releases, we will raise application errors resulting in 500s. Depending on what major version you are using, the fixed versions are 6.2.0, 5.1.0, 3.8.0.
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:a:twitter:secure_headers:*:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:twitter:secure_headers:*:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:twitter:secure_headers:*:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:*

History

21 Nov 2024, 05:33

Type Values Removed Values Added
CVSS v2 : 5.0
v3 : 5.8
v2 : 5.0
v3 : 4.4
References () https://github.com/twitter/secure_headers/commit/936a160e3e9659737a9f9eafce13eea36b5c9fa3 - Patch () https://github.com/twitter/secure_headers/commit/936a160e3e9659737a9f9eafce13eea36b5c9fa3 - Patch
References () https://github.com/twitter/secure_headers/issues/418 - Exploit, Third Party Advisory () https://github.com/twitter/secure_headers/issues/418 - Exploit, Third Party Advisory
References () https://github.com/twitter/secure_headers/pull/421 - Third Party Advisory () https://github.com/twitter/secure_headers/pull/421 - Third Party Advisory
References () https://github.com/twitter/secure_headers/security/advisories/GHSA-xq52-rv6w-397c - Mitigation, Third Party Advisory () https://github.com/twitter/secure_headers/security/advisories/GHSA-xq52-rv6w-397c - Mitigation, Third Party Advisory

Information

Published : 2020-01-23 03:15

Updated : 2024-11-21 05:33


NVD link : CVE-2020-5217

Mitre link : CVE-2020-5217

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2020-5217


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Products Affected

twitter

  • secure_headers
CWE
CWE-95

Improper Neutralization of Directives in Dynamically Evaluated Code ('Eval Injection')

CWE-74

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')