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.
EPSS 0.52% · 67.3th percentile
Risk Scores
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:18.04:LTS | ruby-secure-headers | 0, 3.7.1-1 |
| Ubuntu:20.04:LTS | ruby-secure-headers | 0, 6.0.0-1, 6.1.1-1 |
Timeline
- Jan 23, 2020 CVE Published
- Jan 23, 2020 PoC Published
- May 21, 2020 CVE Updated
- Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
- Jun 23, 2021 EPSS Score
- Aug 24, 2021 EPSS Score
- Dec 27, 2021 EPSS Score
- Jan 6, 2022 EPSS Score
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Feb 28, 2022 EPSS Score
- Apr 1, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 3, 2022 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-5217 third-party-advisory
- https://github.com/twitter/secure_headers/security/advisories/GHSA-xq52-rv6w-397c third-party-advisory
- https://github.com/twitter/secure_headers/commit/936a160e3e9659737a9f9eafce13eea36b5c9fa3 third-party-advisory
- https://github.com/twitter/secure_headers/issues/418 third-party-advisory
- https://github.com/twitter/secure_headers/pull/421 third-party-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-5217 third-party-advisory