CVE-2008-5189

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.

Category

5.0
CVSS
Severity: Medium
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 0.15%
Vendor Advisory opensuse.org Vendor Advisory rubyonrails.org
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/7282ed863ca7e6f928bae9162c9a63a98775a19d
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32359 vdb entry patch
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 vendor advisory
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/10/19/response-splitting-risk

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2008-5189?
CVE-2008-5189 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2008-5189?
To fix CVE-2008-5189, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2008-5189 being actively exploited in the wild?
As for now, there are no information to confirm that CVE-2008-5189 is being actively exploited. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~0% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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