Security Advisory

CVE-2016-5699

6.1
MEDIUM

Vulnerability Description

CRLF injection vulnerability in the HTTPConnection.putheader function in urllib2 and urllib in CPython (aka Python) before 2.7.10 and 3.x before 3.4.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers via CRLF sequences in a URL.
Published Date September 2, 2016
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory