Vulnerability CVE-2012-5526
Published: 2012-11-21   Modified: 2012-11-22

Description:
CGI.pm module before 3.63 for Perl does not properly escape newlines in (1) Set-Cookie or (2) P3P headers, which might allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary headers into responses from applications that use CGI.pm.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Low
perl-CGI Newline injection in Set-Cookie and P3P headers
anazawa
17.11.2012

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
Andy armstrong -> Cgi.pm 

 References:
http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/MARKSTOS/CGI.pm-3.63/Changes
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10735
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0685.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2586
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/15/6
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56562
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027780
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1643-1
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/80098
https://github.com/markstos/CGI.pm/pull/23
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