CVE-2019-16254
MEDIUMRuby <2.4.7, 2.5.x<2.5.6, 2.6.x<2.6.4 - HTTP Response Splitting
Title source: llmDescription
Ruby through 2.4.7, 2.5.x through 2.5.6, and 2.6.x through 2.6.4 allows HTTP Response Splitting. If a program using WEBrick inserts untrusted input into the response header, an attacker can exploit it to insert a newline character to split a header, and inject malicious content to deceive clients. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2017-17742, which addressed the CRLF vector, but did not address an isolated CR or an isolated LF.
References (16)
Core 16
Core References
Mailing List mailing-list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00009.html
Mailing List mailing-list
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/31
Mailing List mailing-list
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/32
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4587
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4586
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-06
Mailing List vendor-advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00041.html
Mailing List mailing-list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00027.html
Mailing List mailing-list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/04/msg00033.html
Third Party Advisory
https://hackerone.com/reports/331984
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00025.html
Vendor Advisory
https://www.ruby-lang.org/ja/news/2019/10/01/http-response-splitting-in-webrick-cve-2019-16254/
Vendor Advisory
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html
Scores
CVSS v3
5.3
EPSS
0.0457
EPSS Percentile
90.4%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Details
CWE
CWE-74
Status
published
Products (2)
debian/debian_linux
8.0
ruby-lang/ruby
< 2.3.0
Published
Nov 26, 2019
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026