Fluid Attacks Database

Description

CRLF injection vulnerability in the HTTPConnection.putheader function in urllib2 and urllib in CPython (aka Python) before 2.7.10 and 3.x before 3.4.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers via CRLF sequences in a URL.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

Ecosystem	Package	Affected version	Patched versions
debian 11	python2.7	>=0 <2.7.10~rc1-1	2.7.10~rc1-1
rpm rhel5	python	-	-
rpm rhel6	python	<0:2.6.6-66.el6_8	0:2.6.6-66.el6_8
rpm rhel7	python	<0:2.7.5-38.el7_2	0:2.7.5-38.el7_2

Aliases

1. CVE-2016-56992. NVD-2016-56993. OSV-DEBIAN-2016-56994. OSV-2016-56995. SECURITY-TRACKER-CVE-2016-5699

References

1. https://github.com/bunseokbot/CVE-2016-5699-poc

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