THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2012-5526
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2012-5526

Cgi.Pm vulnerability

CVSS
5.0
EPSS
3.3%
EPSS pct
87th
Exploited
No known
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.
Affected vendor
Andy Armstrong
Affected product
Cgi.Pm
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2012-11-21

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 3.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 87% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2012-5526

  • Confirm whether Andy Armstrong Cgi.Pm is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2012-5526.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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