Medium severity5.3NVD Advisory· Published Nov 26, 2019· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2011-3624
CVE-2011-3624
Description
Various methods in WEBrick::HTTPRequest in Ruby 1.9.2 and 1.8.7 and earlier do not validate the X-Forwarded-For, X-Forwarded-Host and X-Forwarded-Server headers in requests, which might allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary text into log files or bypass intended address parsing via a crafted header.
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References
4- access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-3624nvdThird Party Advisory
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
- security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-3624nvdThird Party Advisory
- redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/5418nvd
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