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critical 9.8

CVE-2015-5285 json

Kallithea CRLF injection vulnerability

published 2015-10-29 11 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-vfg9-phjp-9frw , PYSEC-2015-13 , EUVD-2015-0026

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, GitHub
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
6.2%
EPSS 6.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 93%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

CRLF injection vulnerability in Kallithea before 0.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via the came_from parameter to _admin/login.

Patch / fix

  • pypi kallithea 0.3

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-38424)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

6.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-38424 Kallithea 0.2.9 - 'came_from' HTTP Response Splitting webapps, 2015-10-08
  • kallithea-scm.org https://kallithea-scm.org/security/cve-2015-5285.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • packetstormsecurity.com http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/133897/Kallithea-0.2.9-HTTP-Response-Splitting.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • zeroscience.mk http://www.zeroscience.mk/en/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2015-5267.php referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
GitHub 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi kallithea
<0.3
0.3

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-93 Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences

References

Sources

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