LOW 3.7 RubyGems
Phusion Passenger allows remote attackers to spoof headers
GHSA-fxwv-953p-7qpf · CVE-2015-7519
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Description
agent/Core/Controller/SendRequest.cpp in Phusion Passenger before 4.0.60 and 5.0.x before 5.0.22, when used in Apache integration mode or in standalone mode without a filtering proxy, allows remote attackers to spoof headers passed to applications by using an _ (underscore) character instead of a - (dash) character in an HTTP header, as demonstrated by an X_User header.
References
- ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-7519
- WEB https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/ddb8ecc4ebf260e4967f57f271d4f5761abeac3e
- WEB https://blog.phusion.nl/2015/12/07/cve-2015-7519
- WEB https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=956281
- ADVISORY https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fxwv-953p-7qpf
- PACKAGE https://github.com/phusion/passenger
- WEB https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/passenger/CVE-2015-7519.yml
- WEB https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00007.html
- WEB https://web.archive.org/web/20220327073056/https://www.puppet.com/security/cve/passenger-dec-2015-security-fixes
- WEB http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00024.html
- WEB http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/07/1
- WEB http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/07/2
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