Missing security headers in Action Pack on non-HTML responses
Date: 2024-06
Affected: rubygems/actionpack, rubygems/actionpack, rubygems/actionpack
Attack vector: other
Category: vulnerability-disclosure
Severity: Medium
CVE: CVE-2024-28103
CWE: CWE-20
CVSS: 5.4 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

# Permissions-Policy is Only Served on HTML Content-Type The application configurable Permissions-Policy is only served on responses with an HTML related Content-Type. This has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-28103. Versions Affected: >= 6.1.0 Not affected: < 6.1.0 Fixed Versions: 6.1.7.8, 7.0.8.4, and 7.1.3.4 Impact ------ Responses with a non-HTML Content-Type are not serving the configured Permissions-Policy. There are certain non-HTML Content-Types that would benefit from having the Permissions-Policy enforced. Releases -------- The fixed releases are available at the normal locations. Workarounds ----------- N/A Patches ------- To aid users who aren't able to upgrade immediately we have provided patches for the supported release series in accordance with our [maintenance policy](https://guides.rubyonrails.org/maintenance_policy.html#security-issues) regarding security issues. They are in git-am format and consist of a single changeset. * 6-1-include-permissions-policy-header-on-non-html.patch - Patch for 6.1 series * 7-0-include-permissions-policy-header-on-non-html.patch - Patch for 7.0 series * 7-1-include-permissions-policy-header-on-non-html.patch - Patch for 7.1 series Credits ------- Thank you [shinkbr](https://hackerone.com/shinkbr) for reporting this!


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