CVE-2008-5189
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
02 Description
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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.53% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 74.2% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2008-11-21 11:00Z17 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 10:40Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2008-11-20
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-352Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)Compound
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 943ff95868905a36b9a61edd769cb904dfdda92ab0aa77c365ddcac43abbf559
05 Affected products
06 References
- github.comhttp://github.com/rails/rails/commit/7282ed863ca7e6f928bae9162c9a63a98775a19d
- www.securityfocus.com32359http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32359
- lists.opensuse.orgSUSE-SR:2008:027http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-12/msg00002.html
- weblog.rubyonrails.orghttp://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/10/19/rails-2-0-5-redirect_to-and-offset-limit-sanitizing
- weblog.rubyonrails.orghttp://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/10/19/response-splitting-risk
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- rails Fixed in 2.1.0-6
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- rails Fixed in 2.1.0-6
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- rails Fixed in 2.1.0-6
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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