CRLF Injection Vulnerability in urllib2 and urllib in Python

CVE-2016-5699 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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.

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