GHSA-33vf-4xgg-9r58
HTTP Response Splitting (Early Hints) in Puma
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### Impact
If an application using Puma allows untrusted input in an early-hints header, an attacker can use a carriage return character 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](https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/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-2020-5247](https://github.com/puma/puma/security/advisories/GHSA-84j7-475p-hp8v), which fixed this vulnerability but only for regular responses.
### Patches
This has been fixed in 4.3.3 and 3.12.4.
### Workarounds
Users can not allow untrusted/user input in the Early Hints response header.
### For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
* Open an issue in [puma](https://github.com/puma/puma)
* Email us a project maintainer. [Email addresses are listed in our Code of Conduct](https://github.com/puma/puma/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md#enforcement).
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/puma/puma/security/advisories/GHSA-33vf-4xgg-9r58
- https://github.com/puma/puma/security/advisories/GHSA-84j7-475p-hp8v
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-5249
- https://github.com/puma/puma/commit/c22712fc93284a45a93f9ad7023888f3a65524f3
- https://github.com/puma/puma
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/puma/CVE-2020-5249.yml
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/BMJ3CGZ3DLBJ5WUUKMI5ZFXFJQMXJZIK
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/DIHVO3CQMU7BZC7FCTSRJ33YDNS3GFPK
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/NJ3LL5F5QADB6LM46GXZETREAKZMQNRD
- https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/HTTP_Response_Splitting