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CVE-2016-5699
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.1
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-09-02T14:59:07.003 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:49:53.580

Summary

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.

Affected products

python — python

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