CVE-2008-5189

unknown
Published 2017-10-24 · Modified 2025-04-09
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-5189

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed2.1.0-6
debian debianbullseyefixed2.1.0-6
debian debianforkyfixed2.1.0-6
debian debiansidfixed2.1.0-6
debian debiantrixiefixed2.1.0-6

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
ruby RubyGemsrails<>= 2.0.5>= 2.0.5
ruby RubyGemsrails<2.0.52.0.5

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.