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CVE-2021-41819

ruby: Cookie prefix spoofing in CGI::Cookie.parse

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

7.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · November 24, 2021

Updated · June 28, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in Ruby. RubyGems cgi gem could allow a remote attacker to conduct spoofing attacks caused by the mishandling of security prefixes in cookie names in the CGI::Cookie.parse function. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could perform cookie prefix spoofing attacks.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CWE not specified