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Ubuntu: USN-4570-1 (CVE-2020-26137): urllib3 vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-4570-1 (CVE-2020-26137): urllib3 vulnerability

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
09/30/2020
Created
03/29/2023
Added
03/22/2023
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

urllib3 before 1.25.9 allows CRLF injection if the attacker controls the HTTP request method, as demonstrated by inserting CR and LF control characters in the first argument of putrequest(). NOTE: this is similar to CVE-2020-26116.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-python-urllib3
  • ubuntu-upgrade-python3-urllib3

References

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