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CVE-2010-2761

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.3 Published: 2010-12-06 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The multipart_init function in (1) CGI.pm before 3.50 and (2) Simple.pm in CGI::Simple 1.112 and earlier uses a hardcoded value of the MIME boundary string in multipart/x-mixed-replace content, which allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via crafted input that contains this value, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-3172.

Affected Platforms

Andy Armstrong Cgi.PmAndy Armstrong Cgi-Simple

Weakness Type

CWE-94

References