HTTP Response Splitting Affecting io.ratpack:ratpack-core package, versions (0.9.1,1.7.5)

io.ratpack:ratpack-core is a simple, capable, toolkit for creating high performance web applications.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to HTTP Response Splitting. If untrusted and unsanitized data is used to populate the headers of an HTTP response, an attacker can utilize this vulnerability to have the server issue any HTTP response they specify. The root cause was due to using the netty DefaultHttpHeaders object with verification disabled.

If your application uses arbitrary user input as the value of a response header it is vulnerable. If your application does not use arbitrary values as response header values, it is not vulnerable.

RatpackServer startedServer =  RatpackServer.start(server -> {
    server.handlers(chain -> chain.all(ctx -> {
        // User supplied query parameter
        String header = ctx.getRequest().getQueryParams().get("header");
        // User supplied data used to populate a header value.
        ctx.header("the-header", header)
            .render("OK!");
    }));
});

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