CVE-2020-5247

MEDIUM

Puma < 3.12.3 - Injection

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0209
EPSS Percentile 84.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

Details

CWE
CWE-113 CWE-74
Status published
Products (8)
debian/debian_linux 9.0
fedoraproject/fedora 30
fedoraproject/fedora 31
fedoraproject/fedora 32
puma/puma < 3.12.3
ruby-lang/ruby 2.7.0 preview1
ruby-lang/ruby < 2.3.0
rubygems/puma 0 - 3.12.4RubyGems
Published Feb 28, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026