CVE-2008-5189

Summary

CVECVE-2008-5189
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-11-21 12:00:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionCRLF 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Problem Types: CWE-352 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Partial
Availability
None

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Rubyonrails Rails 0.10.0 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 0.10.1 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 0.11.0 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 0.11.1 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 0.12.0 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 0.12.1 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 0.13.0 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 0.13.1 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 0.14.1 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 0.14.2 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 0.14.3 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 0.14.4 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 0.9.1 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 0.9.2 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 0.9.3 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 0.9.4 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 0.9.4.1 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 1.0.0 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 1.1.0 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 1.1.1 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 1.1.2 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 1.1.3 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 1.1.4 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 1.1.5 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 1.1.6 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 1.2.0 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 1.2.1 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 1.2.2 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 1.2.3 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 1.2.4 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 1.2.5 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 1.2.6 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 1.9.5 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 2.0.0 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 2.0.0 rc1 All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 2.0.0 rc2 All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 2.0.1 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Rails 2.0.2 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Ruby On Rails 0.5.0 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Ruby On Rails 0.5.5 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Ruby On Rails 0.5.6 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Ruby On Rails 0.5.7 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Ruby On Rails 0.6.0 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Ruby On Rails 0.6.5 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Ruby On Rails 0.7.0 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Ruby On Rails 0.8.0 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Ruby On Rails 0.8.5 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Ruby On Rails 0.9.0 All All All
Application Rubyonrails Ruby On Rails All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report: SUSE-SR:2008:027 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
Riding Rails: Rails 2.0.5: Security fixes af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 weblog.rubyonrails.org Vendor Advisory
504 Gateway Time-out af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Patch
Commit 7282ed863ca7e6f928bae9162c9a63a98775a19d to rails's rails - GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com
Riding Rails: Response Splitting Risk af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 weblog.rubyonrails.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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