CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-3624
5.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-11-26
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-74
Description
Various methods in WEBrick::HTTPRequest in Ruby 1.9.2 and 1.8.7 and earlier do not validate the X-Forwarded-For, X-Forwarded-Host and X-Forwarded-Server headers in requests, which might allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary text into log files or bypass intended address parsing via a crafted header.
Affected configurations
• ruby-lang ruby 1.8.7
• ruby-lang ruby 1.9.2
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-74 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-3624 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-3624 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/5418 redmine.ruby-lang.org
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-3624 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-3624 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-3624 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/5418 redmine.ruby-lang.org
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-3624 Third Party Advisory