HTTP Response Splitting Affecting python package, versions [,2.7.10)[3.0.0, 3.3.7)[3.4.0, 3.4.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.47% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PYTHON-2317651
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed2 Sept 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 Sep 2016

CVE-2016-5699  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-113  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade python to version 2.7.10, 3.3.7, 3.4.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to HTTP Response Splitting. CRLF injection vulnerability in the HTTPConnection.putheader function in urllib2 and urllib allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers via CRLF sequences in a URL.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1