CVE-2016-5699

CVE Details

Release Date:

2016-09-02

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.

See more information about CVE-2016-5699 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v3.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	6.1	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	Low
Privileges Required:	None	User Interaction:	Required
Scope:	Changed	Confidentiality Impact:	Low
Integrity Impact:	Low	Availability Impact:	None

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 6 (python)	ELSA-2016-1626	2016-08-18
Oracle Linux version 7 (python)	ELSA-2016-1626	2016-08-18

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