CVE-2012-5526

Public on 2012-11-21
Modified on 2014-09-15
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.
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
2.6
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 perl 2013-04-04 ALAS-2013-177 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 2.6 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N