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medium 5.0

CVE-2008-5189 json

rails is vulnerable to CRLF injection

published 2008-11-21 17 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also GHSA-jmgf-p46x-982h , EUVD-2017-0263

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.5%
EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 74%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • rubygems rails 2.0.5
  • rails Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.1.0-6

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2008-5189

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2008-5189 updated

rubygems-actionpack: redirect HTTP header injection vulnerability

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.53% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 74% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
rubygems rails
<2.0.5
2.0.5

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery
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References

Sources

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