Security advisory

{
  "id": "8759ebc76084485463c764190d47561ef1ec57673c82f72a6fd9ddb277b7e059",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-28362",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2023-28362",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2023-28362",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2023-28362",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2023-28362",
        "GHSA-4g8v-vg43-wpgf"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/rails/rails",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "cdd14ce1f5196e4bd98df42f89a1cd36ba9d4bee"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "1c3f93d1e90a3475f9ae2377ead25ccf11f71441"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "69e37c84e3f77d75566424c7d0015172d6a6fac5"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "7.0.5.1"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "7.0.5.1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
                    "strategy": "StandaloneSingleVersion"
                  },
                  {
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "6.1.7.4"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "6.1.7.4"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
                    "strategy": "StandaloneSingleVersion"
                  },
                  {
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "fixed": "1c3f93d1e90a3475f9ae2377ead25ccf11f71441"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
                  },
                  {
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "fixed": "69e37c84e3f77d75566424c7d0015172d6a6fac5"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "6.1.7.4",
            "7.0.5.1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-28362.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:28.287953923Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/cve-2023-28362-possible-xss-via-user-supplied-values-to-redirect-to/83132",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/28xxx/CVE-2023-28362.json",
        "https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4g8v-vg43-wpgf",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-28362",
        "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250502-0009/",
        "https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/1c3f93d1e90a3475f9ae2377ead25ccf11f71441",
        "https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/69e37c84e3f77d75566424c7d0015172d6a6fac5"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cna_assigner": "hackerone",
        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/28xxx/CVE-2023-28362.json"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2023-28362",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 494703,
  "published_at": "2025-01-09T00:33:47.73+00:00"
}