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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-3186

Original release date:08/29/2011
Last revised:07/06/2012
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

CRLF injection vulnerability in actionpack/lib/action_controller/response.rb in Ruby on Rails 2.3.x before 2.3.13 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via the Content-Type header.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
CVSS v2 Base Score:4.3 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) (legend)
Impact Subscore: 2.9
Exploitability Subscore: 8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification

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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/11dafeaa7533be26441a63618be93a03869c83a9
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=732156
Type: Patch Information
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20110822 Re: CVE request: ruby on rails flaws (4)
Type: Patch Information
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20110822 Re: CVE request: ruby on rails flaws (4)
Type: Patch Information
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20110820 Re: CVE request: ruby on rails flaws (4)
Type: Patch Information
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20110819 Re: CVE request: ruby on rails flaws (4)
Type: Patch Information
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20110817 CVE request: ruby on rails flaws (4)
Type: Patch Information
External Source: MLIST
Name: [rubyonrails-security] 20110816 Response Splitting Vulnerability in Ruby on Rails
Type: Patch Information
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20110822 Re: CVE request: ruby on rails flaws (4)
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-2301
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 45921
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2011-11567

Vulnerable software and versions

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spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:rubyonrails:ruby_on_rails:2.3.2
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:rubyonrails:ruby_on_rails:2.3.9
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:rubyonrails:ruby_on_rails:2.3.4
* Denotes Vulnerable Software

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