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CVE-2011-3186 (actionpack): Response Splitting Vulnerability in Ruby on Rails

ADVISORIES

GEM

actionpack

FRAMEWORK

Ruby on Rails

SEVERITY

CVSS v2.0: 4.3 (Medium)

PATCHED VERSIONS

  • >= 2.3.13

DESCRIPTION

A response splitting flaw in Ruby on Rails 2.3.x was reported that could allow a remote attacker to inject arbitrary HTTP headers into a response due to insufficient sanitization of the values provided for response content types.