CSP bypass via unvalidated directive values
Published Dec 10, 2024 · Updated Mar 7, 2025
Cross-site scripting in affected Rails Action Pack releases allows remote attackers to bypass CSP through crafted directive values. The content_security_policy helper resolves dynamic source values and joins them into the CSP header without rejecting whitespace or semicolons that start new directives. Exploitation requires an application to build CSP headers from untrusted input and a user to load affected content; the injected policy can remove browser protections and enable script execution.
Summary
What happened
Cross-site scripting in affected Rails Action Pack releases allows remote attackers to bypass CSP through crafted directive values. The content_security_policy helper resolves dynamic source values and joins them into the CSP header without rejecting whitespace or semicolons that start new directives. Exploitation requires an application to build CSP headers from untrusted input and a user to load affected content; the injected policy can remove browser protections and enable script execution.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-54133
- Published
- Dec 10, 2024
- Updated
- Mar 7, 2025
- Vendor
- Rails
- Product
- Ruby on Rails
- Classifications
- CWE-79, T1211
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Dec 10, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Mar 7, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=>= 5.2.0, < 7.0.8.7
- Affected versionversion=>= 7.1.0, < 7.1.5.1
- Affected versionversion=>= 7.2.0, < 7.2.2.1
- Affected versionversion=>= 8.0.0, < 8.0.0.1
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