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Internet Bug Bounty · Report #165102

urllib HTTP header injection CVE-2016-5699

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14upvotes
1 Sept 2016disclosed

Summary

It was found that the Python's httplib library (used by urllib, urllib2 and others) did not properly check HTTPConnection.putheader() function arguments. An attacker could use this flaw to inject additional headers in a Python application that allowed user provided header names or values.

More details: https://bugs.python.org/issue22928

How it was found

https://bugs.python.org/issue22928 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-5699

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