CVE-2020-5249
MEDIUMPuma < 3.12.3 and 3.12.4 - HTTP Response Splitting via Early-Hints Header Injection
Title source: llmDescription
In Puma (RubyGem) before 4.3.3 and 3.12.4, if an application using Puma allows untrusted input in an early-hints header, an attacker can use a carriage return character 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-2020-5247, which fixed this vulnerability but only for regular responses. This has been fixed in 4.3.3 and 3.12.4.
References (7)
Core 7
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/HTTP_Response_Splitting
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/puma/puma/security/advisories/GHSA-33vf-4xgg-9r58
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/puma/puma/security/advisories/GHSA-84j7-475p-hp8v
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/puma/puma/commit/c22712fc93284a45a93f9ad7023888f3a65524f3
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NJ3LL5F5QADB6LM46GXZETREAKZMQNRD/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BMJ3CGZ3DLBJ5WUUKMI5ZFXFJQMXJZIK/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DIHVO3CQMU7BZC7FCTSRJ33YDNS3GFPK/
Scores
CVSS v3
6.5
EPSS
0.0157
EPSS Percentile
72.1%
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 (2)
puma/puma
< 3.12.3
rubygems/puma
0 - 3.12.4RubyGems
Published
Mar 02, 2020
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026