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CRLF injection in urllib3

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jun 18, 2021 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Nov 6, 2023

Package

pip urllib3 (pip)

Affected versions

< 1.25.9

Patched versions

1.25.9

Description

urllib3 before 1.25.9 allows CRLF injection if the attacker controls the HTTP request method, as demonstrated by inserting CR and LF control characters in the first argument of putrequest(). NOTE: this is similar to CVE-2020-26116.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Sep 30, 2020
Reviewed Jun 17, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jun 18, 2021
Last updated Nov 6, 2023

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS score

0.652%
(80th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2020-26137

GHSA ID

GHSA-wqvq-5m8c-6g24

Source code

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