Medium
Security advisory
urllib3 before 1.25.9 allows CRLF injection if the attacker controls the HTTP request method, as demonstrated by inserting CR and LF control characters in the first argument of putrequest(). NOTE: this is similar to CVE-2020-26116.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-26137
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:07 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
urllib3 before 1.25.9 allows CRLF injection if the attacker controls the HTTP request method, as demonstrated by inserting CR and LF control characters in the first argument of putrequest(). NOTE: this is similar to CVE-2020-26116.
osv:CVE-2020-26137
Complete source record
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