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GSD-2011-3186

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2011-08-16 00:00
Details
A response splitting flaw in Ruby on Rails 2.3.x was reported that could allow a remote attacker to inject arbitrary HTTP headers into a response due to insufficient sanitization of the values provided for response content types.
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CVE-2011-3186
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