DEBIAN-CVE-2016-5699

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2016-5699

    Published: 2 Sept 2016Last Modified: 4 Aug 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2016-5699

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5699

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: python2.7

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/python2.7?arch=source&distro=bullseye

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.7.10~rc1-1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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