CPANSA-CGI-2010-2761: CGI vulnerability

Publisher giterlizzi Document category csaf_security_advisory
Initial release date 2010-12-06T00:00:00 Engine CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.25
Current release date 2010-12-06T00:00:00 Build Date
Current version 1 Status final
CVSS v3.1 Base Score Severity
Original language Language en
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Vulnerability Description

The multipart_init function in (1) CGI.pm before 3.50 and (2) Simple.pm in CGI::Simple 1.112 and earlier uses a hardcoded value of the MIME boundary string in multipart/x-mixed-replace content, which allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via crafted input that contains this value, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-3172.

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2010-2761

Vulnerability Description

The multipart_init function in (1) CGI.pm before 3.50 and (2) Simple.pm in CGI::Simple 1.112 and earlier uses a hardcoded value of the MIME boundary string in multipart/x-mixed-replace content, which allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via crafted input that contains this value, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-3172.

Weakness CWE-94 : Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

Product status

Known affected
Product Score
CGI less than 3.50
CVSS Version CVSS Vector CVSS Base Score CVSS Base Severity
2.0 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N 4.3 Medium
Fixed

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Revision history

Version Date of the revision Summary of the revision
1 Mon Dec 6 00:00:00 2010 First release

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