GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Packagist
GHSA-25gq-jvx2-vg9x Silverstripe X-Forwarded-Host request hostname injection
HIGH
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- Ecosystem
- Packagist
- Packages
- silverstripe/framework
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-601
- Reviewed
- 2024-05-23
Affected packages
• Packagist silverstripe/framework: >= 3.1.0, < 3.1.13 → fixed in 3.1.13
Description
A potential hostname injection vulnerability has been found which could allow attackers to alter url resolution.
If a request contains the X-Forwarded-Host HTTP header a website would then use its value in place of the actual HTTP hostname. In cases where caching is enabled, this could allow an attacker to potentially embed a remote url as the base_url for any site. This would then cause other visitors to the site to be redirected unknowingly.
This header is necessary for servers running behind a reverse proxy (such as nginx). Such servers are likely not vulnerable to this risk.
A fix has been merged into the default installer, although existing projects which do not run behind a reverse proxy should update their htaccess as below:
```
# Remove X-Forwarded-Host header sent as a part of any request from the web
RequestHeader unset X-Forwarded-Host
```
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-601 URL Redirection to Untrusted Site weakness
References
- https://github.com/silverstripe/silverstripe-framework/commit/75137dbab28c0efd28b07e50044a50c5af4e46aa web
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/silverstripe/framework/SS-2015-013-1.yaml web
- https://github.com/silverstripe/silverstripe-framework package
- https://www.silverstripe.org/software/download/security-releases/ss-2015-013 web