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Case File

CVE-2012-5526

MEDIUM · CVSS 5 EPSS 3.26% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2012-11-21 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.0. Public exploit code or proof-of-concept references have been detected in its references. It may be remotely exploitable.

Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

GitHub PoC Links
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CVE
CVE-2012-5526
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5
EPSS
3.26%

Original NVD Description

CGI.pm module before 3.63 for Perl does not properly escape newlines in (1) Set-Cookie or (2) P3P headers, which might allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary headers into responses from applications that use CGI.pm.