Vulnerability CVE-2006-5330
Published: 2006-10-17   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
CRLF injection vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player plugin 9.0.16 and earlier for Windows, 7.0.63 and earlier for Linux, 7.x before 7.0 r67 for Solaris, and before 9.0.28.0 for Mac OS X, allows remote attackers to modify HTTP headers of client requests and conduct HTTP Request Splitting attacks via CRLF sequences in arguments to the ActionScript functions (1) XML.addRequestHeader and (2) XML.contentType. NOTE: the flexibility of the attack varies depending on the type of web browser being used.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Low
HTTP Header Injection Vulnerabilities in the Flash Player Plugin
Marc Bevand of R...
18.10.2006

Type:

CWE-79

 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Adobe -> Flash player 

 References:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.html
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Dec/0006.html
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1737
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017078
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102932-1
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa06-01.html
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb06-18.html
http://www.rapid7.com/advisories/R7-0026.jsp
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0009.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448997/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20592
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-072A.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4094
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0930
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1999
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29634
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11405
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