CVE-2008-5189
mediumpriority · track · 21EPSS 0.015 · 75 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
CRLF injection vulnerability in Ruby on Rails before 2.0.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via a crafted URL to the redirect_to function.
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affected products (49)
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advisories (1)
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- GHSA-jmgf-p46x-982hrails is vulnerable to CRLF injection2017-10-24ghsa · osvUS
CRLF injection vulnerability in Ruby on Rails before 2.0.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via a crafted URL to the redirect_to function.
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references (10)
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- http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/7282ed863ca7e6f928bae9162c9a63a98775a19denisa_euvd
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-12/msg00002.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/10/19/rails-2-0-5-redirect_to-and-offset-limit-sanitizingenisa_euvd
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/10/19/response-splitting-riskenisa_euvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32359enisa_euvd
- http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/7282ed863ca7e6f928bae9162c9a63a98775a19dnvd
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-12/msg00002.htmlnvd
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/10/19/rails-2-0-5-redirect_to-and-offset-limit-sanitizingVendor Advisorynvd
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