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Case File

CVE-2008-5189

MEDIUM · CVSS 5 EPSS 1.53% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2008-11-21 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.0. Public exploit code or proof-of-concept references have been detected in its references. It may be remotely exploitable.

Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

GitHub PoC Links
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CVE
CVE-2008-5189
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5
EPSS
1.53%

Original NVD 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.