CVE-2011-3186: Response Splitting Vulnerability in Ruby on Rails

August 29, 2011 (updated August 8, 2019)

A response splitting flaw can allow a remote attacker to inject arbitrary HTTP headers into a response due to insufficient sanitization of the values provided for response content types.

References

github.com/rails/rails/commit/11dafeaa7533be26441a63618be93a03869c83a9
github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/actionpack/OSVDB-74616.yml
groups.google.com/forum/

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