MEDIUM
rubygems-actionpack: redirect HTTP header injection vulnerability
Published Nov 21, 2008
5.0
MEDIUMCVSS 2.0
EPSS 1.53%
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.
Affected products
No data.
OR
- 0.9.1
- 0.9.2
- 0.9.3
- 0.9.4
- 0.9.4.1
- 0.10.0
- 0.10.1
- 0.11.0
- 0.11.1
- 0.12.0
- 0.12.1
- 0.13.0
- 0.13.1
- 0.14.1
- 0.14.2
- 0.14.3
- 0.14.4
- 1.0.0
- 1.1.0
- 1.1.1
- 1.1.2
- 1.1.3
- 1.1.4
- 1.1.5
- 1.1.6
- 1.2.0
- 1.2.1
- 1.2.2
- 1.2.3
- 1.2.4
- 1.2.5
- 1.2.6
- 1.9.5
- 2.0.0
- 2.0.0
- 2.0.0
- 2.0.1
- 2.0.2
- ≤ 2.0.4
- 0.5.0
- 0.5.5
- 0.5.6
- 0.5.7
- 0.6.0
- 0.6.5
- 0.7.0
- 0.8.0
- 0.8.5
- 0.9.0
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
5.0 MEDIUM NVD
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
1.53% 0.01533
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
EPSS probability 0.01533
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (10 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 1.53% (0.01533) | 73.88th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 1.55% (0.01546) | 71.68th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 0.15% (0.00155) | 33.73th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 0.23% (0.00230) | 62.06th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jun 13, 2024 | 0.21% (0.00212) | 59.40th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 0.21% (0.00212) | 57.38th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 1.21% (0.01213) | 66.61th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 17, 2023 | 1.21% (0.01213) | 66.22th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 1.21% (0.01213) | 64.21th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 1.21% (0.01213) | 40.54th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
Weaknesses (1)
References (11)
- http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/7282ed863ca7e6f928bae9162c9a63a98775a19d x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-12/msg00002.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/10/19/rails-2-0-5-redirect_to-and-offset-limit-sanitizing x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/10/19/response-splitting-risk x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32359 vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDPatch
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-5189 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472510 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jmgf-p46x-982h Advisory
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rails/CVE-2008-5189.yml
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5189
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-5189
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/7282ed863ca7e6f928bae9162c9a63a98775a19d | x_refsource_CONFIRM | |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-12/msg00002.html | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE | |
| http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/10/19/rails-2-0-5-redirect_to-and-offset-limit-sanitizing | x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory | |
| http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/10/19/response-splitting-risk | x_refsource_CONFIRM | |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32359 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDPatch | |
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-5189 | Vendor Advisory | |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472510 | Issue Tracking | |
| https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jmgf-p46x-982h | Advisory | |
| https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rails/CVE-2008-5189.yml | ||
| https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5189 | ||
| https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-5189 |
Change history (0)
No recorded changes yet.
Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Nov 21, 2008
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Nov 20, 2008
Link CVE-2008-5189
CISA Vulnrichment
GHSA-JMGF-P46X-982H Updated n/a