CVE-2020-26137
Vulnerability Summary
Timeline
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.
CVSS Metrics
- v4.0•MEDIUM•Score: 6.9CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 6.4AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
EPSS Trends
Current EPSS score: 2.27%• Percentile: 82%
Techniques & Countermeasures
- CWE-74•Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')
The product constructs all or part of a command, data structure, or record using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify how it is parsed or interpreted when it is sent to a downstream component.
Affected Systems
- alpine•py3-urllib3
< 1.25.9-r0 | < 1.25.9-r0 | < 1.25.9-r0 | < 1.25.9-r0 | < 1.25.9-r0 | < 1.25.9-r0 | < 1.25.9-r0 | < 1.25.9-r0 | < 1.25.9-r0 | < 1.25.9-r0 | < 1.25.9-r0 | < 1.25.9-r0
- chainguard•py3.13-scanner-test-scanner-test-python-vulnerability-unfixed
all
- canonical•ubuntu_linux
16.04 | 18.04 | 20.04
- debian•python-urllib3
< 1.25.9-1 | < 1.25.9-1 | < 1.25.9-1 | < 1.25.9-1
- debian•debian_linux
9.0
- oracle•communications_cloud_native_core_network_function_cloud_native_environment
22.2.0
- oracle•zfs_storage_appliance_kit
8.8
- PyPI•urllib3
< 1dd69c5c5982fae7c87a620d487c2ebf7a6b436b | < 1.25.9
- python•urllib3
< 1.25.9
References (15)
- https://bugs.python.org/issue39603
- https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/pull/1800
- https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/commit/1dd69c5c5982fae7c87a620d487c2ebf7a6b436b
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4570-1/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00015.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00012.html
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-26137
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/urllib3/PYSEC-2020-148.yaml
- https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4570-1
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wqvq-5m8c-6g24
- https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2020-26137
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-26137