CVE-2020-5217CWE-95

Directive injection when using dynamic overrides with user input in RubyGems secure_headers

Medium · published January 23, 2020

CVSS v3.1
4.4
EPSS
2%
Percentile
78.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.4 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01830 · 78.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-95 · Improper Neutralization of Directives in Dynamically Evaluated Code ('Eval Injection')
Published
2020-01-23T02:15Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 23 JAN 02:15Z
    Directive injection when using dynamic overrides with user input in RubyGems secure_headers
    cvelistv5