Vulnerability CVE-2011-3624


Published: 2019-11-26   Modified: 2019-11-29

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.

Type:

CWE-74

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Ruby-lang -> RUBY 

 References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-3624
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2011-3624
https://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/5418
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-3624

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