Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting puma package, versions <3.6.0-1+deb9u2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.03% (84th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-PUMA-559025
  • published28 Feb 2020
  • disclosed28 Feb 2020

Introduced: 28 Feb 2020

CVE-2020-5247  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-74  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 puma to version 3.6.0-1+deb9u2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream puma package and not the puma package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1