CVE-2017-5615

Publication date 3 March 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

cgiemail and cgiecho allow remote attackers to inject HTTP headers via a newline character in the redirect location.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
cgiemail	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 1.6-37+deb7u1build0.16.10.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 1.6-37+deb7u1build0.16.04.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 1.6-37+deb7u1build0.14.04.1
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 1.6-37+deb7u1build0.12.04.1

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.1 · Medium

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality impact	Low
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	None

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.1 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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