CVE-2020-5247
moderate-risk
Published 2020-02-28
In Puma (RubyGem) before 4.3.2 and before 3.12.3, if an application using Puma allows untrusted input in a response header, an attacker can use newline characters (i.e. `CR`, `LF` or`/r`, `/n`) to end the header and inject malicious content, such as additional headers or an entirely new response body. This vulnerability is known as HTTP Response Splitting. While not an attack in itself, response splitting is a vector for several other attacks, such as cross-site scripting (XSS). This is related to CVE-2019-16254, which fixed this vulnerability for the WEBrick Ruby web server. This has been fixed in versions 4.3.2 and 3.12.3 by checking all headers for line endings and rejecting headers with those characters.
Do I need to act?
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2.1% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — moderate exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 6.5/10
Medium
NETWORK
/ LOW complexity
Affected Vendors
References (14)
Third Party Advisory
https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/HTTP_Response_Splitting
Third Party Advisory
https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/HTTP_Response_Splitting
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/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity
24/34 · High
Exploitability
5/34 · Minimal
Exposure
14/34 · Moderate