Code Injection in ruby-actionpack (Alpine package)



Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2011-3186
CWE-ID CWE-94
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
 apache2 (Alpine package)
Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component

Vendor Alpine Linux Development Team

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Code Injection

EUVDB-ID: #VU33124

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 2.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2011-3186

CWE-ID: CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to manipulate data.

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.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

apache2 (Alpine package): 2.2.21-r0

CPE2.3 External links

https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=269e7f25545e02034cead0c65442326f1a346ba5
https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=b26e3b6ec1ec742d6822d36fd791dfa309869e25


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.



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