Bug 1957438 (CVE-2021-22903) - CVE-2021-22903 rubygem-actionpack: Possible Open Redirect Vulnerability in Action Pack
Summary: CVE-2021-22903 rubygem-actionpack: Possible Open Redirect Vulnerability in Ac...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2021-22903
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1957440
Blocks: 1957445
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-05-05 18:51 UTC by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2021-05-11 20:33 UTC (History)
31 users (show)

Fixed In Version: rubygem-actionpack 6.1.3.2
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2021-05-11 20:33:55 UTC
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2021-05-05 18:51:08 UTC
There is a possible Open Redirect Vulnerability in Action Pack. This
vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2021-22903.

Versions Affected:  >= v6.1.0.rc2
Not affected:       < v6.1.0.rc2
Fixed Versions:     6.1.3.2

Impact
------
This is similar to CVE-2021-22881: Specially crafted Host headers in
combination with certain "allowed host" formats can cause the Host
Authorization middleware in Action Pack to redirect users to a malicious
website.

Since rails/rails@9bc7ea5, strings in config.hosts that do not have a
leading
dot are converted to regular expressions without proper escaping. This
causes,
for example, config.hosts << "sub.example.com" to permit a request with a
Host
header value of sub-example.com.


Releases
--------
The fixed releases are available at the normal locations.

Workarounds
-----------
The following monkey patch put in an initializer can be used as a
workaround:

```ruby
class ActionDispatch::HostAuthorization::Permissions
  def sanitize_string(host)
    if host.start_with?(".")
      /\A(.+\.)?#{Regexp.escape(host[1..-1])}\z/i
    else
      /\A#{Regexp.escape host}\z/i
    end
  end
end
```

Patches
-------
To aid users who aren't able to upgrade immediately we have provided
patches for
the two supported release series. They are in git-am format and consist of a
single changeset.

* 6-1-open-redirect.patch - Patch for 6.1 series

Please note that only the 6.1.Z, 6.0.Z, and 5.2.Z series are supported at
present. Users of earlier unsupported releases are advised to upgrade as
soon
as possible as we cannot guarantee the continued availability of security
fixes for unsupported releases.

References:

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/05/2

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2021-05-05 18:52:56 UTC
Created rubygem-actionpack tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1957440]

Comment 2 Tomer Brisker 2021-05-06 08:19:48 UTC
Red Hat Satellite currently ships with version 6.0.3.4 of this gem and is thus not affected.

Comment 3 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-05-11 20:33:55 UTC
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2021-22903


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