CVE-2012-5526

medium

Published 2012-11-21 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.0

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`3.61-2`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`3.61-2`
debian	forky	fixed	`3.61-2`
debian	sid	fixed	`3.61-2`
debian	trixie	fixed	`3.61-2`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
andy_armstrong	cgi.pm	`{"endIncluding":"3.62"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-16

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.