CRLF Injection Affecting yhirose/cpp-httplib package, versions [,0.12.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.57% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UNMANAGED-YHIROSECPPHTTPLIB-5591194
  • published 29 May 2023
  • disclosed 22 May 2023
  • credit Alessio Della Libera

How to fix?

Upgrade yhirose/cpp-httplib to version 0.12.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to CRLF Injection when untrusted user input is used to set the content-type header in the HTTP .Patch, .Post, .Put and .Delete requests. This can lead to logical errors and other misbehaviors.

Note: This issue is present due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2020-11709.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
7.5 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    None
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NVD

8.8 high