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CVE-2011-3186

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Description

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.

References

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fcqf-h4h4-695m

https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/11dafeaa7533be26441a63618be93a03869c83a9

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=732156

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/5

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/14

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/13

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/20/1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/19/11

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/17/1

http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2301

http://secunia.com/advisories/45921

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065137.html

http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/bbe342e43abaa78c?dmode=source&output=gplain

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2011-08-29

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00814

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