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TI-2024-34422 Aliases CVE-2024-51501GHSA-3hxg-fxwm-8gf7

CRLF injection in Refit's [Header], [HeaderCollection] and [Authorize] attributes

Priority HIGH 76CWE-93Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Attack requirements
None
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · High
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub.

Summary

Refit is an automatic type-safe REST library for .NET Core, Xamarin and .NET The various header-related Refit attributes (Header, HeaderCollection and Authorize) are vulnerable to CRLF injection. The way HTTP headers are added to a request is via the `HttpHeaders.TryAddWithoutValidation` method. This method does not check for CRLF characters in the header value. This means that any headers added to a refit request 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 Refit 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 Refit and not in Refit itself. This issue has been addressed in release versions 7.2.22 and 8.0.0 and all users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00562 47th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed refit (reactiveui): 7.2.22Refit (NuGet): 7.2.22

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

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
reactiveuirefitbefore 7.2.227.2.22Patch availableCNA
—Refit (NuGet)before 7.2.227.2.22Patch availableGHSA-3hxg-fxwm-8gf7
  • refit Vendorreactiveui Affected before 7.2.22 Fixed in 7.2.22 Patch available CNA
  • Refit (NuGet) Vendor— Affected before 7.2.22 Fixed in 7.2.22 Patch available GHSA-3hxg-fxwm-8gf7

CPE names CISA-ADP · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:reactiveui:refit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*——reactiveui
  • cpe:2.3:a:reactiveui:refit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions — — ·reactiveui

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA refit (reactiveui) Fixed in 7.2.22
  • Fix · GHSA-3hxg-fxwm-8gf7 Refit (NuGet) Fixed in 7.2.22 Advisory →

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-51501
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-3hxg-fxwm-8gf7

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