Is CVE-2008-5189 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2008-5189 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2008-5189?

CVE-2008-5189 has a CVSS v2 base score of 5.0 (MEDIUM).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2008-5189?

CVE-2008-5189 has an EPSS score of 1.55% (72th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2008-5189?

Upgrade rails on debian 11 to 2.1.0-6 or later.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2008-5189

MEDIUMEPSS 72th pctl

5.0

CVSS v2

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.

CWE-352Cross-Site Request Forgery

How to fix

Remediation Available

railsDebian

Fixed in:2.1.0-6CVE-2008-5189

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v2 Vector

No CVSS vector data available.

Exploit Intelligence

1.55%probability of exploitation in 30 days

72ndpercentile

Elevated risk: more likely to be exploited than 72% of all known CVEs.

References

Patch1

securityfocus.com

Vendor Advisory1

weblog.rubyonrails.org

Other references3

Related Vulnerabilities

Other CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery) vulnerabilities, ordered by exploit likelihood. View all

CVE	Severity	CVSS	EPSS	Exploited	Fix
CVE-2016-6277	High	8.8	100%	KEV	-
CVE-2014-0054	Medium	6.8	91%	-	Fix
CVE-2013-6429	Medium	6.8	90%	-	Fix
CVE-2022-41622	High	8.8	88%	-	-
CVE-2018-7700	High	8.8	75%	-	-
CVE-2015-2295	Medium	6.8	66%	-	-

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2026-04-23.