National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-5189

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: BID

Name: 32359

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32359

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/10/19/response-splitting-risk

Hyperlink:http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/10/19/response-splitting-risk

External Source: CONFIRM

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

Type: Advisory

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

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2008:027

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-12/msg00002.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/7282ed863ca7e6f928bae9162c9a63a98775a19d

Hyperlink:http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/7282ed863ca7e6f928bae9162c9a63a98775a19d