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CVE-2020-5247

7.5 highEPSS 2.5%

High (7.5). EPSS 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in puma 3.12.4, 4.3.3.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.5 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS
2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 85% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWEs
CWE-74, CWE-113
Published
Modified
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Affected

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-84j7-475p-hp8vRubyGemspuma<3.12.43.12.4
GHSA-84j7-475p-hp8vRubyGemspuma>=4.0.0 <4.3.34.3.3

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