CRLF Injection in RestSharp's `RestRequest.AddHeader` method
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA and GitHub.
Summary
RestSharp is a Simple REST and HTTP API Client for .NET. The second argument to `RestRequest.AddHeader` (the header value) is vulnerable to CRLF injection. The same applies to `RestRequest.AddOrUpdateHeader` and `RestClient.AddDefaultHeader`. The way HTTP headers are added to a request is via the `HttpHeaders.TryAddWithoutValidation` method which does not check for CRLF characters in the header value. This means that any headers from a `RestSharp.RequestHeaders` object are added to the request in such a way that they are vulnerable to CRLF-injection. In general, CRLF-injection into a HTTP header (when using HTTP/1.1) means that one can inject additional HTTP headers or smuggle whole HTTP requests. If an application using the RestSharp library passes a user-controllable value through to a header, then that application becomes vulnerable to CRLF-injection. This is not necessarily a security issue for a command line application like the one above, but if such code were present in a web application then it becomes vulnerable to request splitting (as shown in the PoC) and thus Server Side Request Forgery. Strictly speaking this is a potential vulnerability in applications using RestSharp, not in RestSharp itself, but I would argue that at the very least there needs to be a warning about this behaviour in the RestSharp documentation. RestSharp has addressed this issue in version 112.0.0. All users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| restsharp | RestSharp | 107 to before 112.0.0 | 112.0.0 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | RestSharp (NuGet) | 107.0.0-preview.1 to before 112.0.0 | 112.0.0 | Patch available | GHSA-4rr6-2v9v-wcpc |
- RestSharp Vendorrestsharp Affected 107 to before 112.0.0 Fixed in 112.0.0 Patch available CNA
- RestSharp (NuGet) Vendor— Affected 107.0.0-preview.1 to before 112.0.0 Fixed in 112.0.0 Patch available GHSA-4rr6-2v9v-wcpc
Remediation
- Fix · CNA RestSharp (restsharp) Fixed in 112.0.0
- Fix · GHSA-4rr6-2v9v-wcpc RestSharp (NuGet) Fixed in 112.0.0 Advisory →
Vendor assessments
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-45302
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-4rr6-2v9v-wcpc
References
More Restsharp vulnerabilities
- TI-2021-08827 RestSharp < 106.11.8-alpha.0.13 uses a regular expression which is vulnerable to Regular… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
Sources
- CVE-2024-45302 · CVE Program
- CVE-2024-45302 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-4rr6-2v9v-wcpc · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2024-45302 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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