PT-2008-6331 · Ruby · Ruby On Rails

Published 2008-11-21 · Updated 2019-08-08 · CVE-2008-5189

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Ruby on Rails versions prior to 2.0.5

Description The issue allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via a crafted URL to the redirect to function.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.0.5, update to version 2.0.5 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

CSRF

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-352

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-5189

GHSA-JMGF-P46X-982H

Affected Products

Ruby On Rails

References · 14

• 🔥 https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rails/CVE-2008-5189.yml · Exploit
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-12/msg00002.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/32359 · Patch
• http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/10/19/rails-2-0-5-redirect_to-and-offset-limit-sanitizing · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-5189 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-5189 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5189 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-jmgf-p46x-982h · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-5189 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5189 · Note
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jmgf-p46x-982h · Note
• http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/7282ed863ca7e6f928bae9162c9a63a98775a19d · Note
• http://github.com/rails/rails · Note
• http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/10/19/response-splitting-risk · Note