CVE-2023-28362 (GCVE-0-2023-28362)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-01-09 00:33 – Updated: 2025-05-02 23:02
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-01-09 21:26 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-116 - Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Rails Action Pack Affected: 7.0.5.1 , < 7.0.5.1 (custom)
Affected: 6.1.7.4 , < 6.1.7.4 (custom)
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