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CVE-2008-5189: rubyonrails rails Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

CVSS: 5.0v2.0MediumModified
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2008-5189GHSA-jmgf-p46x-982h
Published 21-11-2008Last modified 07-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2008-5189 is a medium (CVSS 5.0) Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in rubyonrails rails. EPSS estimates a 1.53% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 74.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
20/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.0/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.53%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 21-11-2008
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

1.53%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

74%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 1.53% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
1.53%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Rubyonrails2 products
  • rails0.9.1 | 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:rc1 | 2.0.0:rc2 | 2.0.1 | 2.0.2
  • ruby_on_rails≤ 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
Debian1 product
  • rails< 2.1.0-6
RubyGems1 product
  • rails< 2.0.5

3 vendors · 4 products

References

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