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medium 6.1

CVE-2019-6802 json

CRLF Injection in pypiserver

published 7y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-mh24-7wvg-v88g , PYSEC-2019-113 , EUVD-2019-0108

cvss
6.1
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.8%
EPSS 3.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 90%
public exploits
0
none known, plus a Nuclei check

Summary

CRLF Injection in pypiserver 1.2.5 and below allows attackers to set arbitrary HTTP headers and possibly conduct XSS attacks via a %0d%0a in a URI.

Patch / fix

  • pypi pypiserver 1.2.6

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Exploit prediction

3.80% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • Nuclei template Pypiserver <1.2.5 - Carriage Return Line Feed Injection nuclei detection template
  • github.com https://github.com/pypiserver/pypiserver/issues/237 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
GitHub 3.0 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi pypiserver
<1.2.6
1.2.6

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-74 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

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