Moderate severity vulnerability that affects io.vertx:vertx-core · CVE-2018-12537 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

Moderate severity vulnerability that affects io.vertx:vertx-core

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 19, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 9, 2023

Package

io.vertx:vertx-core (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 3.0.0, < 3.5.2

Patched versions

3.5.2

Description

In Eclipse Vert.x version 3.0 to 3.5.1, the HttpServer response headers and HttpClient request headers do not filter carriage return and line feed characters from the header value. This allow unfiltered values to inject a new header in the client request or server response.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 19, 2018

Reviewed Jun 16, 2020

Last updated Jan 9, 2023