CVE-2006-2769

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 10.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-06-02 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The HTTP Inspect preprocessor (http_inspect) in Snort 2.4.0 through 2.4.4 allows remote attackers to bypass "uricontent" rules via a carriage return (\r) after the URL and before the HTTP declaration.

Affected products

Sourcefire Snort: 2.4, 2.4.1, 2.4.2, 2.4.3, 2.4.4

References

http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Jun/0008.html
http://marc.info/?l=snort-devel&m=114909074311462&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/20413
http://secunia.com/advisories/20766
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1018
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016191
http://www.demarc.com/support/downloads/patch_20060531
http://www.osvdb.org/25837
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435600/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435734/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435797/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/435872/100/0/threaded

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