DEBIAN-CVE-2020-5247

Advisory lineage Upstream: 1 Downstream: 1
Upstream
CVE-2020-5247
Downstream
DLA-3023-1
Published: 28 Feb 2020, 17:15
Last modified:28 Apr 2026, 20:21

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
30/100
CVSS Score
7.5 HIGH
3.1 (osv_debian)
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

28 Feb 2020, 17:15
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
28 Apr 2026, 20:21
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

In Puma (RubyGem) before 4.3.2 and before 3.12.3, if an application using Puma allows untrusted input in a response header, an attacker can use newline characters (i.e. `CR`, `LF` or`/r`, `/n`) to end the header and inject malicious content, such as additional headers or an entirely new response body. This vulnerability is known as HTTP Response Splitting. While not an attack in itself, response splitting is a vector for several other attacks, such as cross-site scripting (XSS). This is related to CVE-2019-16254, which fixed this vulnerability for the WEBrick Ruby web server. This has been fixed in versions 4.3.2 and 3.12.3 by checking all headers for line endings and rejecting headers with those characters.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•HIGH•Score: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected Systems

  • debian•puma

    < 3.12.4-1 | < 3.12.4-1 | < 3.12.4-1 | < 3.12.4-1

References (1)