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  "title": "rails is vulnerable to CRLF injection",
  "summary": "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.",
  "published_at": "2017-10-24T18:33:38Z",
  "updated_at": "2025-04-09T17:02:22.936736Z",
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