CVE-2021-44528

Published: 10 January 2022

A open redirect vulnerability exists in Action Pack >= 6.0.0 that could allow an attacker to craft a "X-Forwarded-Host" headers in combination with certain "allowed host" formats can cause the Host Authorization middleware in Action Pack to redirect users to a malicious website.

Notes

Author	Note
seth-arnold	In Oneiric-Saucy, rails package is just for transition; The rails package contains actual code from vivid onward

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.1

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
rails Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Not vulnerable (code not present)
	focal	Not vulnerable (code not present)
	hirsute	Ignored (end of life)
	impish	Ignored (end of life)
	jammy	Needed
	kinetic	Ignored (end of life, was needed)
	lunar	Ignored (end of life, was needed)
	mantic	Needed
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Not vulnerable (code not present)
rails-4.0 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Does not exist
	focal	Does not exist
	hirsute	Does not exist
	impish	Does not exist
	jammy	Does not exist
	kinetic	Does not exist
	lunar	Does not exist
	mantic	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist
ruby-actionpack-3.2 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Does not exist
	focal	Does not exist
	hirsute	Does not exist
	impish	Does not exist
	jammy	Does not exist
	kinetic	Does not exist
	lunar	Does not exist
	mantic	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist
ruby-activemodel-3.2 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Does not exist
	focal	Does not exist
	hirsute	Does not exist
	impish	Does not exist
	jammy	Does not exist
	kinetic	Does not exist
	lunar	Does not exist
	mantic	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist
ruby-activerecord-3.2 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Does not exist
	focal	Does not exist
	hirsute	Does not exist
	impish	Does not exist
	jammy	Does not exist
	kinetic	Does not exist
	lunar	Does not exist
	mantic	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist
ruby-activesupport-3.2 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Does not exist
	focal	Does not exist
	hirsute	Does not exist
	impish	Does not exist
	jammy	Does not exist
	kinetic	Does not exist
	lunar	Does not exist
	mantic	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist
ruby-rails-3.2 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Does not exist
	focal	Does not exist
	hirsute	Does not exist
	impish	Does not exist
	jammy	Does not exist
	kinetic	Does not exist
	lunar	Does not exist
	mantic	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.1
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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