CVE-2012-5526

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-11-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-16

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.

Affected products

Andy Armstrong Cgi.Pm: through 3.62

References

http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/MARKSTOS/CGI.pm-3.63/Changes
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10735
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0685.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/51457
http://secunia.com/advisories/55314
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2586
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/15/6
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56562
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027780
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1643-1

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