🛡️ CVE-2021-44528
🟡 CVSS 5.0 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-601 OSV
5.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

A open redirect vulnerability exists in Action Pack >= 6.0.0 that could allow an attacker to craft a "X-Forwarded-Host" headers in combination with certain "allowed host" formats can cause the Host Authorization middleware in Action Pack to redirect users to a malicious website.

Details

Severity Medium
CVSS Score 5.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-601
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2021-12-14
Updated 2026-06-15
Modified 2024-03-06
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
actionpack 6.1.0 6.1.4.2
rails

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