CVE-2012-5572

Description

CRLF injection vulnerability in the cookie method (lib/Dancer/Cookie.pm) in Dancer before 1.3114 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via a cookie name, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-5526.

Category

5.0
CVSS
Severity: Medium
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 0.52%
Vendor Advisory fedoraproject.org Vendor Advisory mandriva.com
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-June/108749.html vendor advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:184 vendor advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/26/10 mailing list
https://github.com/PerlDancer/Dancer/issues/859
https://github.com/PerlDancer/Dancer/blob/devel/CHANGES
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2013-0183.html

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2012-5572?
CVE-2012-5572 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2012-5572?
To fix CVE-2012-5572, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2012-5572 being actively exploited in the wild?
As for now, there are no information to confirm that CVE-2012-5572 is being actively exploited. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~1% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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