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

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

Priority

Medium

CVSS 3 base score: 6.1

Status

References

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-44528
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/12/14/5
• https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/0fccfb9a3097a9c4260c791f1a40b128517e7815 (master)
• https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/aecba3c301b80e9d5a63c30ea1b287bceaf2c107 (v6.1.4.2)
• https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/fd6a64fef1d0f7f40a8d4b046da882e83163299c (v6.0.4.2)
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian