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rails — security advisory
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.
- Products
- rails
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.1.0-6
- CVEs
- CVE-2008-5189
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 22:34 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2008-5189
rails
Fixed versions: 2.1.0-6
rails
Fixed versions: 2.1.0-6
rails
Fixed versions: 2.1.0-6
Complete source record
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