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passenger -- client controlled header overwriting

Affected packages
5.0.0 <= rubygem-passenger < 5.0.22
rubygem-passenger < 4.0.60

Details

VuXML ID 84fdd1bb-9d37-11e5-8f5c-002590263bf5
Discovery 2015-12-07
Entry 2015-12-07

Daniel Knoppel reports:

It was discovered by the SUSE security team that it was possible, in some cases, for clients to overwrite headers set by the server, resulting in a medium level security issue. CVE-2015-7519 has been assigned to this issue.

Affected use-cases:

Header overwriting may occur if all of the following conditions are met:

This vulnerability has been fixed by filtering out client headers that do not consist of alphanumeric/dash characters (Nginx already did this, so Passenger+Nginx was not affected). If your application depends on headers that don't conform to this, you can add a workaround in Apache specifically for those to convert them to a dash-based format.

References

CVE Name CVE-2015-7519
URL https://blog.phusion.nl/2015/12/07/cve-2015-7519/