Secunia Security Advisory - Trancer has reported a vulnerability in cPanel, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct HTTP response splitting attacks.
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TITLE:
cPanel "failurl" HTTP Response Splitting Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA38255
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/38255/
DESCRIPTION:
Trancer has reported a vulnerability in cPanel, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct HTTP response splitting
attacks.
Input passed to the "failurl" parameter in login/index.php is not
properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be
exploited to insert arbitrary HTTP headers, which are included in a
response sent to the user.
The vulnerability is reported in version 11.25.0 build 42174. Other
versions may also be affected.
SOLUTION:
Reportedly fixed in version 11.25.0 build 42213 and later.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Trancer
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.rec-sec.com/2010/01/21/cpanel-http-response-splitting-vulnerability/
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