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Clearance Gem Open Redirect Vulnerability

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Sep 13, 2021 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Aug 25, 2023

Package

bundler clearance (RubyGems)

Affected versions

< 2.5.0

Patched versions

2.5.0

Description

This affects the package clearance before 2.5.0. The vulnerability can be possible when users are able to set the value of session[:return_to]. If the value used for return_to contains multiple leading slashes (/////example.com) the user ends up being redirected to the external domain that comes after the slashes (http://example.com).

References

Reviewed Sep 13, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Sep 13, 2021
Last updated Aug 25, 2023

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

EPSS score

0.066%
(31st percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-23435

GHSA ID

GHSA-4hpq-rjcx-7vj9

Source code

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