CVE-2008-5189

Ruby on Rails <2.0.5 - RCE

Title source: llm

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.

References (5)

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-12/msg00002.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/10/19/rails-2-0-5-redirect_to-and-offset-limit-sanitizing

[Various Sources] http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/10/19/response-splitting-risk

[Patch] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32359

[Patch] http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/7282ed863ca7e6f928bae9162c9a63a98775a19d

Scores

EPSS 0.0017

EPSS Percentile 38.0%

Classification

CWE

CWE-352

Status draft

Affected Products (50)

rubyonrails/rails

... and 35 more

Timeline

Published Nov 21, 2008

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026