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CVE-2020-5217

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Published: Jan 23, 2020Modified: Jun 17, 2026

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5.8
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 1.4
Source: NVD

Description

In Secure Headers (RubyGem secure_headers), a directive injection vulnerability is present in versions before 3.8.0, 5.1.0, and 6.2.0. If user-supplied input was passed into append/override_content_security_policy_directives, a semicolon could be injected leading to directive injection. This could be used to e.g. override a script-src directive. Duplicate directives are ignored and the first one wins. The directives in secure_headers are sorted alphabetically so they pretty much all come before script-src. A previously undefined directive would receive a value even if SecureHeaders::OPT_OUT was supplied. The fixed versions will silently convert the semicolons to spaces and emit a deprecation warning when this happens. This will result in innocuous browser console messages if being exploited/accidentally used. In future releases, we will raise application errors resulting in 500s. Depending on what major version you are using, the fixed versions are 6.2.0, 5.1.0, 3.8.0.

Affected (3)

1 product
Secure Headers
Configuration A
3 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Twitter
Before 3.8.0
From 5.0.0 to 5.1.0
From 6.0.0 to 6.2.0

References (8)

Source: security-advisories@github.com
ExploitThird Party Advisory
Source: security-advisories@github.com
Third Party Advisory
Source: security-advisories@github.com
MitigationThird Party Advisory
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
ExploitThird Party Advisory
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
MitigationThird Party Advisory

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