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CVE-2023-28362
The redirect_to method in Rails allows provided values to contain characters which are not legal in an HTTP header value. This results in…
Medium4.0EPSS 0.33%
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- Updated
- Reserved
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- hackerone
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Medium4.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium4.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.33% · top 74% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.0.
Weakness
Affected products
Rails · Action Pack
- affected 7.0.5.1 – < 7.0.5.1
- affected 6.1.7.4 – < 6.1.7.4
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemsactionpackGHSA-4g8v-vg43-wpgf (opens in a new tab)
References (5)
- https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/cve-2023-28362-possible-xss-via-user-supplied-values-to-redirect-to/83132 (opens in a new tab)
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4g8v-vg43-wpgf (opens in a new tab)
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/1c3f93d1e90a3475f9ae2377ead25ccf11f71441 (opens in a new tab)
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/69e37c84e3f77d75566424c7d0015172d6a6fac5 (opens in a new tab)
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250502-0009/ (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-4g8v-vg43-wpgf (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .