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CVE-2023-28362

Published: Jan 9, 2025Updated: May 2, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSACWE-116
NVD MITRE
4.0CVSSMEDIUM
EPSS Score
0.3%
Top 77.4%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
1 Known
Remediation
Patch Available

Description

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.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:LAC:LPR:NUI:NS:UC:NI:LA:N
Exploitability
AV:LAttack Vector
Local
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:LIntegrity
Low
A:NAvailability
None
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Weaknesses

CWE-116

Affected Products

Action PackRails
Library
OSS Libraries / web-framework
actionpackRubyGemsOSS Libraries
railsoss-projectOSS Librariesaka rails-html-sanitizer, activestorage
rubygemspackage-ecosystemOSS Libraries

Exploitability

1 exploit source identified

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Official Patch Available

References

https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/cve-2023-28362-possible-xss-via-user-supplied-values-to-redirect-to/83132
discuss.rubyonrails.org
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4g8v-vg43-wpgf
github.com
https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/1c3f93d1e90a3475f9ae2377ead25ccf11f71441
github.com
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Timeline

Published
Jan 9, 2025
Last Updated
May 2, 2025

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