CVE-2020-5217

In Secure Headers (RubyGem secure_headers), a directive injection vulnerability is present in versions before 3.8.0, 5.1.0, and 6.2.0. If user-supplied input was passed into append/override_content_security_policy_directives, a semicolon could be injected leading to directive injection. This could be used to e.g. override a script-src directive. Duplicate directives are ignored and the first one wins. The directives in secure_headers are sorted alphabetically so they pretty much all come before script-src. A previously undefined directive would receive a value even if SecureHeaders::OPT_OUT was supplied. The fixed versions will silently convert the semicolons to spaces and emit a deprecation warning when this happens. This will result in innocuous browser console messages if being exploited/accidentally used. In future releases, we will raise application errors resulting in 500s. Depending on what major version you are using, the fixed versions are 6.2.0, 5.1.0, 3.8.0.

• CWE-95
• CWE-74

• https://github.com/twitter/secure_headers/commit/936a160e3e9659737a9f9eafce13eea36b5c9fa3Patch
• https://github.com/twitter/secure_headers/issues/418Exploit, Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/twitter/secure_headers/pull/421Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/twitter/secure_headers/security/advisories/GHSA-xq52-rv6w-397cMitigation, Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/twitter/secure_headers/commit/936a160e3e9659737a9f9eafce13eea36b5c9fa3Patch
• https://github.com/twitter/secure_headers/issues/418Exploit, Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/twitter/secure_headers/pull/421Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/twitter/secure_headers/security/advisories/GHSA-xq52-rv6w-397cMitigation, Third Party Advisory

Published

Jan 23, 2020

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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