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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2018-1000164

gunicorn version 19.4.5 contains a CWE-113: Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences in HTTP Headers vulnerability in "process_headers" function in "gunicorn/http/wsgi.py" that can result in an attacker causing the server to return arbitrary HTTP headers. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 19.5.0.

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31 Oct 2026, 10:03 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2018-1000164

core-osv · Original source

Published 18 Apr 2018, 19:29 UTC

gunicorn version 19.4.5 contains a CWE-113: Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences in HTTP Headers vulnerability in "process_headers" function in "gunicorn/http/wsgi.py" that can result in an attacker causing the server to return arbitrary HTTP headers. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 19.5.0.

osv:CVE-2018-1000164
Complete source record
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