| Name | CVE-2023-28362 |
| Description | The redirect_to method in Rails allows provided values to contain characters which are not legal in an HTTP header value. This results in the potential for downstream services which enforce RFC compliance on HTTP response headers to remove the assigned Location header. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-5881-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 1051058 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| rails (PTS) | bullseye (security), bullseye | 2:6.0.3.7+dfsg-2+deb11u2 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 2:6.1.7.3+dfsg-2~deb12u1 | vulnerable |
| bookworm (security) | 2:6.1.7.10+dfsg-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 2:7.2.2.1+dfsg-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| rails | source | bookworm | 2:6.1.7.10+dfsg-1~deb12u1 | | DSA-5881-1 | |
| rails | source | (unstable) | 2:7.2.2.1+dfsg-1 | | | 1051058 |
Notes
[bullseye] - rails <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/cve-2023-28362-possible-xss-via-user-supplied-values-to-redirect-to/83132
https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/69e37c84e3f77d75566424c7d0015172d6a6fac5 (main)
https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/1c3f93d1e90a3475f9ae2377ead25ccf11f71441 (v6.1.7.4)