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CVE-2011-3186

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-3186 is a CRLF injection vulnerability in Ruby on Rails versions 2.3.x prior to 2.3.13, specifically within the actionpack/lib/action_controller/response.rb component. This flaw allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers through the Content-Type header, leading to HTTP response splitting attacks. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3 (Medium), indicating a network-based attack with medium complexity, requiring no authentication, and primarily impacting integrity (partial). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.3.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.3.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.3.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.3.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.3.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.3.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:2.3.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.75%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
75.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0175 is in the 54th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: actionpackFixed in: 2.3.13

Vendor Advisories (1)

rubygemsGHSA-fcqf-h4h4-695mmedium

actionpack CRLF injection vulnerability

Oct 24, 2017

References

groups.google.com / group/rubyonrails-security/msg/bbe342e43abaa78c
Patch
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2011-September/065137.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Patch
secunia.com / advisories/45921
github.com / rails/rails/commit/11dafeaa7533be26441a63618be93a03869c83a9
Patch
debian.org / security/2011/dsa-2301
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/08/17/1
Patch
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/08/19/11
Patch
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/08/20/1
Patch
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/13
Patch
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/14
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2011/08/22/5
Patch