CVE-2020-5216
MEDIUMSecure Headers < 3.9.0, 5.2.0-6.3.0 - Directive Injection via Newline in Content-Security-Policy
Title source: llmDescription
In Secure Headers (RubyGem secure_headers), a directive injection vulnerability is present in versions before 3.9.0, 5.2.0, and 6.3.0. 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. This has been fixed in 6.3.0, 5.2.0, and 3.9.0.
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
Exploit, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/twitter/secure_headers/security/advisories/GHSA-w978-rmpf-qmwg
Scores
CVSS v3
4.4
EPSS
0.0108
EPSS Percentile
60.6%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Details
CWE
CWE-113
CWE-74
Status
published
Products (2)
rubygems/secure_headers
6.0.0 - 6.3.0RubyGems
twitter/secure_headers
< 3.9.0
Published
Jan 23, 2020
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026