Open Redirect Affecting cgiemail package, versions <1.6-37+deb7u1build0.16.10.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.14% (63rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1610-CGIEMAIL-384898
  • published3 Mar 2017
  • disclosed3 Mar 2017

Introduced: 3 Mar 2017

CVE-2017-5615  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-601  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:16.10 cgiemail to version 1.6-37+deb7u1build0.16.10.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream cgiemail package and not the cgiemail package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:16.10 relevant fixed versions and status.

cgiemail and cgiecho allow remote attackers to inject HTTP headers via a newline character in the redirect location.