CVE-2024-45614 (GCVE-0-2024-45614)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-09-19 22:42 – Updated: 2025-11-03 22:15
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Title
Header normalization allows for client to clobber proxy set headers in Puma
Summary
Puma is a Ruby/Rack web server built for parallelism. In affected versions clients could clobber values set by intermediate proxies (such as X-Forwarded-For) by providing a underscore version of the same header (X-Forwarded_For). Any users relying on proxy set variables is affected. v6.4.3/v5.6.9 now discards any headers using underscores if the non-underscore version also exists. Effectively, allowing the proxy defined headers to always win. Users are advised to upgrade. Nginx has a underscores_in_headers configuration variable to discard these headers at the proxy level as a mitigation. Any users that are implicitly trusting the proxy defined headers for security should immediately cease doing so until upgraded to the fixed versions.
Severity ?
5.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-639 - Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
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Vendor Product Version
puma puma Affected: >= 6.0.0, < 6.4.3
Affected: < 5.6.9
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