phusion/passenger · Security
Phusion Passenger allows remote attackers to spoof headers
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-fxwv-953p-7qpf
- CVE ID
- CVE-2015-7519
- Severity
- low
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 3.7 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 3.7 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Description
agent/Core/Controller/SendRequest.cpp in Phusion Passenger before 4.0.60 and 5.0.x before 5.0.22, when used in Apache integration mode or in standalone mode without a filtering proxy, allows remote attackers to spoof headers passed to applications by using an _ (underscore) character instead of a - (dash) character in an HTTP header, as demonstrated by an X_User header.
CWEs
- CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-7519 ↗
- https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/ddb8ecc4ebf260e4967f57f271d4f5761abeac3e ↗
- https://blog.phusion.nl/2015/12/07/cve-2015-7519/ ↗
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=956281 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fxwv-953p-7qpf ↗
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00007.html ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00024.html ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/07/1 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/07/2 ↗
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/passenger/CVE-2015-7519.yml ↗
- https://web.archive.org/web/20220327073056/https://www.puppet.com/security/cve/passenger-dec-2015-security-fixes ↗