CVE-2008-5189 Information

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.

Reference

http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/7282ed863ca7e6f928bae9162c9a63a98775a19d http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-12/msg00002.html http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/10/19/rails-2-0-5-redirect_to-and-offset-limit-sanitizing http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/10/19/response-splitting-risk http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32359