CVE-2024-51501 Information

Description

Refit is an automatic type-safe REST library for .NET Core Xamarin and .NET The various header-related Refit attributes (Header HeaderCollection and Authorize) are vulnerable to CRLF injection. The way HTTP headers are added to a request is via the HttpHeaders.TryAddWithoutValidation method. This method does not check for CRLF characters in the header value. This means that any headers added to a refit request are vulnerable to CRLF-injection. In general CRLF-injection into a HTTP header (when using HTTP/1.1) means that one can inject additional HTTP headers or smuggle whole HTTP requests. If an application using the Refit library passes a user-controllable value through to a header then that application becomes vulnerable to CRLF-injection. This is not necessarily a security issue for a command line application like the one above but if such code were present in a web application then it becomes vulnerable to request splitting (as shown in the PoC) and thus Server Side Request Forgery. Strictly speaking this is a potential vulnerability in applications using Refit and not in Refit itself. This issue has been addressed in release version 8.0.0 and all users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Reference

https://github.com/reactiveui/refit/security/advisories/GHSA-3hxg-fxwm-8gf7 https://github.com/reactiveui/refit/blob/258a771f44417c6e48e103ac921fe4786f3c2a1e/Refit/RequestBuilderImplementation.cs#L1328