CVE-2008-5189
unknown
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
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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 function.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 2.1.0-6 |
| sid | Fixed | 2.1.0-6 |
| forky | Fixed | 2.1.0-6 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 2.1.0-6 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 2.1.0-6 |
References
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/10/19/rails-2-0-5-redirect_to-and-offset-limit-sanitizing
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5189
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rails/CVE-2008-5189.yml
- http://github.com/rails/rails
- http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/7282ed863ca7e6f928bae9162c9a63a98775a19d
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-12/msg00002.html
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/10/19/response-splitting-risk
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-5189
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
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