Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-44528

Medium

Published: 10 January 2022

Published
10 January 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.2861 96.6th percentile
Risk Priority 29 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-44528 is a medium-severity Open Redirect (CWE-601) vulnerability in Rubyonrails Rails. Its CVSS base score is 6.1 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 3.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

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…

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a malicious website.

CWE(s)
CWE-601

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

rubyonrails
rails
6.0.4.2, 6.1.4.2, 7.0.0

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

AT-2 Literacy Training and Awareness
addresses: CWE-601

Security awareness includes verifying URLs and avoiding untrusted redirects that lead to malicious sites.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-601

Validates redirect targets and URLs to ensure they conform to allowed destinations.

References