CVE-2023-28362

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

09/01/2025

Last modified:

02/05/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.00 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Low
Availability (A): None

Base Score 3.x

4.00

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/cve-2023-28362-possible-xss-via-user-supplied-values-to-redirect-to/83132
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4g8v-vg43-wpgf
https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/1c3f93d1e90a3475f9ae2377ead25ccf11f71441
https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/69e37c84e3f77d75566424c7d0015172d6a6fac5
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250502-0009/