CVE-2018-12537
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 2.5%
exploitation probability
2.5%top 17% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In Eclipse Vert.x version 3.0 to 3.5.1, the HttpServer response headers and HttpClient request headers do not filter carriage return and line feed characters from the header value. This allow unfiltered values to inject a new header in the client request or server response.
Affected products
The Eclipse Foundation · Eclipse Vert.xReferences
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2371https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3768https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=536038https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1591072https://github.com/eclipse/vert.x/commit/1bb6445226c39a95e7d07ce3caaf56828e8aab72https://github.com/eclipse/vert.x/issues/2470https://www.compass-security.com/fileadmin/Datein/Research/Advisories/CSNC-2018-021_vertx.txt