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HistoryDec 07, 2016 - 12:00 a.m.

K10420455 : Python urllib and urllib2 library vulnerability CVE-2016-5699

2016-12-0700:00:00
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6.5 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.002 Low

EPSS

Percentile

59.3%

Security Advisory 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. (CVE-2016-5699)
Impact
An attacker could use this vulnerability to inject additional HTTP headers to perform a smuggling attack.