CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-5217
5.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-01-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.8 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-74, CWE-95
Description
In Secure Headers (RubyGem secure_headers), a directive injection vulnerability is present in versions before 3.8.0, 5.1.0, and 6.2.0. 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. Depending on what major version you are using, the fixed versions are 6.2.0, 5.1.0, 3.8.0.
Affected configurations
• twitter secure headers (< 3.8.0)
• twitter secure headers (>= 5.0.0 < 5.1.0)
• twitter secure headers (>= 6.0.0 < 6.2.0)
Related
References
- https://github.com/twitter/secure_headers/commit/936a160e3e9659737a9f9eafce13eea36b5c9fa3 Patch
- https://github.com/twitter/secure_headers/issues/418 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/twitter/secure_headers/pull/421 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/twitter/secure_headers/security/advisories/GHSA-xq52-rv6w-397c Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/twitter/secure_headers/commit/936a160e3e9659737a9f9eafce13eea36b5c9fa3 Patch
- https://github.com/twitter/secure_headers/issues/418 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/twitter/secure_headers/pull/421 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/twitter/secure_headers/security/advisories/GHSA-xq52-rv6w-397c Mitigation, Third Party Advisory