CVE Catalog

CVE-2005-4830

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

A CRLF injection vulnerability in viewcvs in ViewCVS 0.9.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via CRLF sequences in the content-type parameter.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can manipulate HTTP responses, potentially leading to session hijacking, cache poisoning, or other man-in-the-middle attacks, compromising data confidentiality and integrity.

Recommendation

Immediately upgrade ViewCVS to the latest available version that fixes this vulnerability and implement input filtering to block CRLF sequences.

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Original NVD description (English source)

CRLF injection vulnerability in viewcvs in ViewCVS 0.9.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via CRLF sequences in the content-type parameter.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS