CVSS 3.1
4.0 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NCVE-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 the potential for downstream services which enforce RFC compliance on HTTP response headers to remove the assigned Location header.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 26% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-116
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-4g8v-vg43-wpgf | RubyGems | actionpack | <6.1.7.4 | 6.1.7.4 |
| GHSA-4g8v-vg43-wpgf | RubyGems | actionpack | >=7.0.0 <7.0.5.1 | 7.0.5.1 |
References
- https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/cve-2023-28362-possible-xss-via-user-supplied-values-to-redirect-to/83132
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4g8v-vg43-wpgf
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/1c3f93d1e90a3475f9ae2377ead25ccf11f71441
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/69e37c84e3f77d75566424c7d0015172d6a6fac5
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250502-0009/