CVE-2017-5868 (GCVE-0-2017-5868)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-05-25 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 15:11
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Summary
CRLF injection vulnerability in the web interface in OpenVPN Access Server 2.1.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and consequently conduct session fixation attacks and possibly HTTP response splitting attacks via "%0A" characters in the PATH_INFO to __session_start__/.
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2017-05-05 00:00
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