HTTP Header Injection Affecting io.vertx:vertx-core package, versions [,3.5.2)
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.42% (74th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-IOVERTX-32470
- published 15 Aug 2018
- disclosed 23 May 2018
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 23 May 2018
CVE-2018-12537 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade io.vertx:vertx-core
to version 3.5.2 or higher.
Overview
io.vertx:vertx-core is a tool-kit for building reactive applications on the JVM.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to HTTP Header Injection. The HttpServer response headers and HttpClient request headers do not check wether
header name or value contain \r
or \n
chars. This allow unfiltered values to inject a new header in the client request or server response.