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rubygemsRubySecRUBY:SECURE_HEADERS-2020-5217
HistoryJan 22, 2020 - 9:00 p.m.

secure_headers directive injection using semicolon

2020-01-2221:00:00
RubySec
github.com
13

CVSS2

5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

NONE

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS3

5.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

NONE

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N

If user-supplied input was passed into append/override_content_security_policy_directives,
a semicolon could be injected leading to directive injection.

This could be used to e.g. override a script-src directive. Duplicate directives are ignored
and the first one wins. The directives in secure_headers are sorted alphabetically so they
pretty much all come before script-src. A previously undefined directive would receive a value
even if SecureHeaders::OPT_OUT was supplied.

The fixed versions will silently convert the semicolons to spaces and emit a deprecation warning
when this happens. This will result in innocuous browser console messages if being
exploited/accidentally used. In future releases, we will raise application errors resulting in
500s.

> Duplicate script-src directives detected. All but the first instance will be ignored.

See https://www.w3.org/TR/CSP3/#parse-serialized-policy

> Note: In this case, the user agent SHOULD notify developers that a duplicate directive was
> ignored. A console warning might be appropriate, for example.

Workarounds

If you are passing user input into the above methods, you could filter out the input:

override_content_security_policy_directives(:frame_src, [user_input.gsub(";", " ")])

Affected configurations

Vulners
Node
rubysecure_headersRange3.03.8
OR
rubysecure_headersRange5.05.1
OR
rubysecure_headersRange6.2.0
VendorProductVersionCPE
rubysecure_headers*cpe:2.3:a:ruby:secure_headers:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS2

5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

NONE

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS3

5.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

NONE

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N