HTTP response splitting in Puma - CVE-2020-5247

 

HTTP response splitting in Puma - CVE-2020-5247

Published: March 3, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU25747
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-5247
CWE-ID: CWE-113
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform HTTP splitting attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to software does not corrector process CRLF character sequences in a response header. A remote attacker can send specially crafted request containing CRLF sequence and make the application to send a split HTTP response.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker perform cache poisoning attack.


Affected software

Puma
Fedora
rubygem-puma
Operational Decision Manager

How to mitigate CVE-2020-5247

Install update from vendor's website.

Puma - addressed in versions 3.12.4, 4.3.3
rubygem-puma - addressed in versions 3.12.4-1.fc30, 3.12.4-1.fc31, 4.3.3-1.fc32
Operational Decision Manager - addressed in versions 8.10.5.2 Interim fix 1, 8.11.0.1 Interim fix 30, 8.11.1 Interim fix 24, 8.12.0.1 Interim fix 5

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