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CVE-2018-12537

Published: Aug 14, 2018

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

In Eclipse Vert.x version 3.0 to 3.5.1, the HttpServer response headers and HttpClient request headers do not filter carriage return and line feed characters from the header value. This allow unfiltered values to inject a new header in the client request or server response.

Vendor	Product	Versions
The Eclipse Foundation	Eclipse Vert.x	affected `3.0 - < unspecified` affected `unspecified - <= 3.5.1`

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

https://github.com/eclipse/vert.x/commit/1bb6445226c39a95e7d07ce3caaf56828e8aab72

x_refsource_CONFIRM

https://www.compass-security.com/fileadmin/Datein/Research/Advisories/CSNC-2018-021_vertx.txt

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vendor-advisory

x_refsource_REDHAT

https://github.com/eclipse/vert.x/issues/2470

x_refsource_CONFIRM

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=536038

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vendor-advisory

x_refsource_REDHAT

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1591072

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