CVE-2015-7519 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Reference

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://blog.phusion.nl/2015/12/07/cve-2015-7519/ https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=956281 https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/ddb8ecc4ebf260e4967f57f271d4f5761abeac3e https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00007.html https://puppet.com/security/cve/passenger-dec-2015-security-fixes

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

LOW

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

3.7