🚨 [security] [ruby] Update devise 4.9.4 → 5.0.4 (major)

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This dependency update fixes known security vulnerabilities. Please see the details below and assess their impact carefully. We recommend to merge and deploy this as soon as possible!

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↗️ devise (indirect, 4.9.4 → 5.0.4) · Repo · Changelog

Security Advisories 🚨

🚨 Devise has an Open Redirect via Unvalidated `request.referrer` in Timeoutable Session Timeout Handler

Summary

When the Timeoutable module is enabled in Devise, the FailureApp#redirect_url method returns request.referrer — the HTTP Referer header, which is attacker-controllable — without validation for any non-GET request that results in a session timeout. An attacker who hosts a page with an auto-submitting cross-origin form can cause a victim with an expired Devise session to be redirected to an arbitrary external URL. This contrasts with the GET timeout path (which uses server-side attempted_path) and Devise's own store_location_for mechanism (which strips external hosts via extract_path_from_location), both of which are protected; only the non-GET timeout redirect path is unprotected.

Details

The vulnerable code is in lib/devise/failure_app.rb:

def redirect_url
  if warden_message == :timeout
    flash[:timedout] = true if is_flashing_format?
<span class="pl-s1">path</span> <span class="pl-c1">=</span> <span class="pl-k">if</span> <span class="pl-en">request</span><span class="pl-kos">.</span><span class="pl-en">get?</span>
  <span class="pl-en">attempted_path</span>          <span class="pl-c"># safe: server-side value from warden options</span>
<span class="pl-k">else</span>
  <span class="pl-en">request</span><span class="pl-kos">.</span><span class="pl-en">referrer</span>        <span class="pl-c"># UNSAFE: HTTP Referer header, attacker-controlled</span>
<span class="pl-k">end</span>

<span class="pl-s1">path</span> || <span class="pl-en">scope_url</span>

else

scope_url

end

end

This is passed directly to redirect_to:

def redirect
  store_location!
  # ...
  redirect_to redirect_url   # redirect_url may be an external attacker URL
end

The GET timeout path uses attempted_path, which is set server-side by Warden and cannot be influenced by the client. The store_location! method also only runs for GET requests, so no session-based protection is applied on POST timeouts.

By contrast, Devise's store_location_for method (used elsewhere) correctly sanitizes URLs via extract_path_from_location, which strips the scheme and host.

Impact

• Victims with expired sessions who click any attacker-crafted link or visit an attacker page with an auto-submitting form are redirected to an arbitrary external URL.
• The redirect happens transparently via a trusted domain (the target app's domain), bypassing browser phishing warnings.
• An attacker can redirect victims to a fake login page to harvest credentials (phishing), or to malicious download sites.

Note: Rails' built-in open-redirect protection does not mitigate this issue. Devise::FailureApp is an ActionController::Metal app with its own isolated copy of the relevant redirect configuration, so config.action_controller.action_on_open_redirect = :raise (and the older raise_on_open_redirects setting) do not reach it.

Patches

This is patched in Devise v5.0.4. Users should upgrade as soon as possible.

Workaround

None beyond upgrading. If an upgrade is not immediately possible, the same changes from the patch commit can be applied as a monkey-patch in a Rails initializer (Devise::FailureApp#redirect_url and Devise::Controllers::StoreLocation#extract_path_from_location). Remove the monkey-patch after upgrading.

🚨 Devise has a confirmable "change email" race condition permits user to confirm email they have no access to

Impact

A race condition in Devise's Confirmable module allows an attacker to confirm an email address they do not own. This affects any Devise application using the reconfirmable option (the default when using Confirmable with email changes).

By sending two concurrent email change requests, an attacker can desynchronize the confirmation_token and unconfirmed_email fields. The confirmation token is sent to an email the attacker controls, but the unconfirmed_email in the database points to a victim's email address. When the attacker uses the token, the victim's email is confirmed on the attacker's account.

Patches

This is patched in Devise v5.0.3. Users should upgrade as soon as possible.

Workarounds

Applications can override this specific method from Devise models to force unconfirmed_email to be persisted when unchanged: (assuming your model is User)

class User < ApplicationRecord
  protected
def postpone_email_change_until_confirmation_and_regenerate_confirmation_token

unconfirmed_email_will_change!

super

end

end

Note: Mongoid does not seem to respect that will_change! should force the attribute to be persisted, even if it did not really change, so you might have to implement a workaround similar to Devise by setting changed_attributes["unconfirmed_email"] = nil as well.

Release Notes

5.0.4

https://github.com/heartcombo/devise/blob/v5.0.4/CHANGELOG.md#504---2026-05-08

5.0.3

https://github.com/heartcombo/devise/blob/v5.0.3/CHANGELOG.md#503---2026-03-16

5.0.2

https://github.com/heartcombo/devise/blob/v5.0.2/CHANGELOG.md#502---2026-02-18

5.0.1

https://github.com/heartcombo/devise/blob/v5.0.1/CHANGELOG.md#501---2026-02-13

5.0.0

https://github.com/heartcombo/devise/blob/v5.0.0/CHANGELOG.md#500---2026-01-23

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Commits

See the full diff on Github. The new version differs by more commits than we can show here.

↗️ responders (indirect, 3.1.1 → 3.2.0) · Repo · Changelog

Release Notes

3.2.0

https://github.com/heartcombo/responders/blob/v3.2.0/CHANGELOG.md#320

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Commits

See the full diff on Github. The new version differs by 10 commits:

• Release v3.2.0
• Merge pull request #254 from heartcombo/ca-upgrade
• Update Ruby/Rails support
• Update copyright, use new email [ci skip]
• Merge pull request #249 from kianmeng/fix-typo
• Fix typo, compatibilty -> compatibility
• Bump year [ci skip]
• Add support to Ruby 3.3 (no changes required)
• Update to latest gems
• Fix link to old Rails 3 blog post (#247)

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