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Red Hat JBoss EAP: CVE-2016-4993: CRLF Injection

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Sep 8, 2016
Added
Sep 19, 2024
Modified
Jul 2, 2025

Description

CRLF injection vulnerability in the Undertow web server in WildFly 10.0.0, as used in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 7.x before 7.0.2, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via unspecified vectors.. It was reported that EAP 7 Application Server/Undertow web server is vulnerable to the injection of arbitrary HTTP headers, and also response splitting, due to insufficient sanitization and validation of user input before the input is used as part of an HTTP header value.

Solution

red-hat-jboss-eap-upgrade-latest

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