CVE-2016-9964
medium
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.5
Description
redirect() in bottle.py in bottle 0.12.10 doesn't filter a "\r\n" sequence, which leads to a CRLF attack, as demonstrated by a redirect("233\r\nSet-Cookie: name=salt") call.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
Debian Mixed 6 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 0.12.11-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 0.12.11-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 0.12.11-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 0.12.11-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 0.12.11-1 |
| 8.0 | Affected | — |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| bottlepy | bottle | 0.12.10 | |
References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3743
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94961
- https://github.com/bottlepy/bottle/commit/6d7e13da0f998820800ecb3fe9ccee4189aefb54
- https://github.com/bottlepy/bottle/issues/913
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9964
- https://github.com/bottlepy/bottle/commit/78f67d51965db11cb1ed0003f1eb7926458b5c2c
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j6f7-hghw-g437
- https://github.com/bottlepy/bottle
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/bottle/PYSEC-2016-24.yaml
- https://web.archive.org/web/20170214030628/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94961
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9964
CWEs
CWE-93
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
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