What is CVE-2023-28362?

CVE-2023-28362 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Rails Action Pack, classified under Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output. CVSS score: 4.0/10. Published 2025-01-09.

How severe is CVE-2023-28362?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.0 out of 10.

Is CVE-2023-28362 known to be exploited?

2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Vulnerability in Rails Action Pack

CVE-2023-28362

The redirect_to method in Rails allows provided values to contain characters which are not legal in an HTTP header value. This results in the potential for downstream services which enforce RFC compliance on HTTP response headers to remove the assigned Location header.

EPSS: 0.003 (25.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.0 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Rails Action Pack — versions 7.0.5.1, 6.1.7.4

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-116 — Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-28362?: CVE-2023-28362 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Rails Action Pack, classified under Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output. CVSS score: 4.0/10. Published 2025-01-09.
How severe is CVE-2023-28362?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.0 out of 10.
Is CVE-2023-28362 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.