CVE-2020-5216
Estado: ModificadaMedia (5.8)—
In Secure Headers (RubyGem secure_headers), a directive injection vulnerability is present in versions before 3.9.0, 5.2.0, and 6.3.0. If user-supplied input was passed into append/override_content_security_policy_directives, a newline could be injected leading to limited header injection. Upon seeing a newline in the header, rails will silently create a new Content-Security-Policy header with the remaining value of the original string. It will continue to create new headers for each newline. This has been fixed in 6.3.0, 5.2.0, and 3.9.0.
CVSS
- Versión: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Puntuación base: 5.8
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 1.08%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 64
- Fecha de la puntuación: 5/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
Tecnologías afectadas (1)
CWE
- CWE-113
- CWE-74
Referencias
- https://github.com/twitter/secure_headers/commit/301695706f6a70517c2a90c6ef9b32178440a2d0
- https://github.com/twitter/secure_headers/security/advisories/GHSA-w978-rmpf-qmwg
- https://github.com/twitter/secure_headers/commit/301695706f6a70517c2a90c6ef9b32178440a2d0
- https://github.com/twitter/secure_headers/security/advisories/GHSA-w978-rmpf-qmwg
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