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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 conduct HTTP…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 1.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 25% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 16 years later
· 16 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.5% · top 25% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemsrailsGHSA-jmgf-p46x-982h (opens in a new tab)
References
5
- http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/7282ed863ca7e6f928bae9162c9a63a98775a19d (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 32359 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2008:027 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/10/19/rails-2-0-5-redirect_to-and-offset-limit-sanitizing (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/10/19/response-splitting-risk (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2017-0263 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-jmgf-p46x-982h (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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