CVE-2023-26142 Other in Crow

Medium 6.5 Published Updated

Attackers can inject malicious content into HTTP responses via CRLF injection in header functions, potentially leading to cache poisoning or XSS.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2023-26142?

CVE-2023-26142 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Crow, published on 12 Sep 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

All versions of the package crow are vulnerable to HTTP Response Splitting when untrusted user input is used to build header values. Header values are not properly sanitized against CRLF Injection in the set_header and add_header functions. An attacker can add the \r\n (carriage return line feeds) characters to end the HTTP response headers and inject malicious content.

Weakness: CWE-74, CWE-113

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-26142?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Crowcpp Crow.

How do I fix CVE-2023-26142?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-26142 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2023-26142 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2023-26142 exists.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-3r2p-c9r5-pw6w.

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