CVE-2011-3186

medium
Published 2011-08-16 · Modified 2024-12-05
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
4.3
VIR risk
4.3

Description

CRLF injection vulnerability in actionpack/lib/action_controller/response.rb in Ruby on Rails 2.3.x before 2.3.13 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via the Content-Type header.

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-2011-3186

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/11dafeaa7533be26441a63618be93a03869c83a9

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=732156

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/5

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/13

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/20/1

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/19/11

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/17/1

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/bbe342e43abaa78c?dmode=source&output=gplain

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed2.3.14
debian debianbullseyefixed2.3.14
debian debianforkyfixed2.3.14
debian debiansidfixed2.3.14
debian debiantrixiefixed2.3.14

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
ruby RubyGemsactionpack<>= 2.3.13>= 2.3.13
ruby RubyGemsactionpack>=2.3.0,<2.3.132.3.13

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
rubyonrailsrails2.3.2
rubyonrailsrails2.3.3
rubyonrailsrails2.3.4
rubyonrailsrails2.3.9
rubyonrailsrails2.3.10
rubyonrailsrails2.3.11
rubyonrailsrails2.3.12

References

CWEs

CWE-94

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