CVE-2012-5526

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2012-11-12
Bugzilla:
877015: CVE-2012-5526 perl-CGI: Newline injection due to improper CRLF escaping in Set-Cookie and P3P headers

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2012-5526 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 2.6
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (perl) RHSA-2013:0685 2013-03-26
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (perl) RHSA-2013:0685 2013-03-26

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