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CVE-2008-5189

CRLF injection vulnerability in Ruby on Rails before 2.0.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and

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.

MEDIUM · CVSS 5 EPSS 0.00341
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  • No active-exploitation, high-EPSS, or public-exploit signals - routine patching cadence
Sigma rules1 YARA rules0
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Weakness Classification

CWE-352Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
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Affected Products & Versions

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rubyonrails railsall versions
rubyonrails ruby on rails<= 2.0.4
rubyonrails ruby on railsall versions
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Affected Packages

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Language-ecosystem packages (from OSV) tied to this CVE, with the version that fixes it - the dependency-level detail NVD doesn’t carry.
RubyGems rails MODERATE fixed in 2.0.5
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Exact rules name this CVE ID. Product rules name an affected product in their title. Related rules cover techniques used by actors who exploited this CVE. Showing the most relevant matches; the complete related set is on the full drill-down.
productmediumRuby on Rails Framework Exceptions
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Scoring & Timeline

5
MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cve@mitre.org
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v2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Published to NVD21 Nov 2008 · 12:00 PM
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References & Sources

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Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
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/rails-2-0-5-redirect_to-and-offset-limit-sanitizingVendor Advisory
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/10/19/response-splitting-risk
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32359Patch
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