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CVE-2008-5189 Detail

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.


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Hyperlink Resource
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-sanitizing Vendor Advisory 
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/10/19/response-splitting-risk
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32359 Patch 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2008-5189
NVD Published Date:
11/21/2008
NVD Last Modified:
08/08/2019
Source:
MITRE