CVE-2024-45614CWE-639

Header normalization allows for client to clobber proxy set headers in Puma

Medium · published September 19, 2024

CVSS v3.1
5.4
EPSS
1%
Percentile
50.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Puma is a Ruby/Rack web server built for parallelism. In affected versions clients could clobber values set by intermediate proxies (such as X-Forwarded-For) by providing a underscore version of the same header (X-Forwarded_For). Any users relying on proxy set variables is affected. v6.4.3/v5.6.9 now discards any headers using underscores if the non-underscore version also exists. Effectively, allowing the proxy defined headers to always win. Users are advised to upgrade. Nginx has a underscores_in_headers configuration variable to discard these headers at the proxy level as a mitigation. Any users that are implicitly trusting the proxy defined headers for security should immediately cease doing so until upgraded to the fixed versions.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.4 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00640 · 50.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-639 · Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
Published
2024-09-19T22:42Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 SEP 22:42Z
    Header normalization allows for client to clobber proxy set headers in Puma
    cvelistv5