CVE-2017-5615
cgiemail and cgiecho allow remote attackers to inject HTTP headers via a newline character in the redirect location.
02 Description
cgiemail and cgiecho allow remote attackers to inject HTTP headers via a newline character in the redirect location.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.13% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 66.2% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 6.1 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2017-03-03 15:00Z9 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 15:04Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2017-01-28
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-601URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 266dc7aa66b03af3eb45614e96b1cc7600c9f324e99e76ce551c993b58f5b539
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.securityfocus.com95870http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95870
- news.cpanel.comhttps://news.cpanel.com/tsr-2017-0001-full-disclosure/
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20170128 Re: CVE request: cgiemail multiple vulnerabilitieshttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/28/8
07 Fixed in
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- cgiemail Fixed in 1.6-37+deb7u1build0.14.04.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- cgiemail Fixed in 1.6-37+deb7u1build0.16.04.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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