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CVE-2025-40927 (GCVE-0-2025-40927)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-29 00:10 – Updated: 2025-08-29 13:18

Title

CGI::Simple versions 1.281 and earlier for Perl has a HTTP response splitting flaw

Summary

CGI::Simple versions before 1.282 for Perl has a HTTP response splitting flaw This vulnerability is a confirmed HTTP response splitting flaw in CGI::Simple that allows HTTP response header injection, which can be used for reflected XSS or open redirect under certain conditions. Although some validation exists, it can be bypassed using URL-encoded values, allowing an attacker to inject untrusted content into the response via query parameters. As a result, an attacker can inject a line break (e.g. %0A) into the parameter value, causing the server to split the HTTP response and inject arbitrary headers or even an HTML/JavaScript body, leading to reflected cross-site scripting (XSS), open redirect or other attacks. The issue documented in CVE-2010-4410 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-4410 is related but the fix was incomplete. Impact By injecting %0A (newline) into a query string parameter, an attacker can: * Break the current HTTP header * Inject a new header or entire body * Deliver a script payload that is reflected in the server’s response That can lead to the following attacks: * reflected XSS * open redirect * cache poisoning * header manipulation

Severity

7.3 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-08-29 13:18 UTC

CWE

CWE-113 - Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences in HTTP Headers ('HTTP Request/Response Splitting')

Assigner

CPANSec redhat root

References

6 references

URL	Tags
https://metacpan.org/release/MANWAR/CGI-Simple-1.…	related
https://metacpan.org/release/MANWAR/CGI-Simple-1.…	related
https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/HTTP_Resp…	technical-description
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7230#section-3	technical-description
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CV…	related
https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21951	related

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE status
MANWAR	CGI::Simple	Affected: 0 , < 1.282 (custom)	guessed

Credits

Maxim Kosenko

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FKIE_CVE-2025-40927

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-08-29 01:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 09:22

Severity

7.3 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Summary

References

	URL	Tags
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	9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e	https://metacpan.org/release/MANWAR/CGI-Simple-1.281/source/lib/CGI/Simple.pm#L1031-1035
	9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e	https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/HTTP_Response_Splitting
	9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e	https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21951

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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GHSA-WH29-FQ99-4WW5

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-08-29 03:30 – Updated: 2025-08-29 15:30

Details

Although some validation exists, it can be bypassed using URL-encoded values, allowing an attacker to inject untrusted content into the response via query parameters.

As a result, an attacker can inject a line break (e.g. %0A) into the parameter value, causing the server to split the HTTP response and inject arbitrary headers or even an HTML/JavaScript body, leading to reflected cross-site scripting (XSS), open redirect or other attacks.

The issue documented in CVE-2010-4410 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-4410 is related but the fix was incomplete.

Impact

By injecting %0A (newline) into a query string parameter, an attacker can:

Break the current HTTP header
Inject a new header or entire body
Deliver a script payload that is reflected in the server’s response That can lead to the following attacks:
reflected XSS
open redirect
cache poisoning
header manipulation

Severity

7.3 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

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OPENSUSE-SU-2025:15625-1

Vulnerability from csaf_opensuse - Published: 2025-10-11 00:00 - Updated: 2025-10-11 00:00

Summary

perl-CGI-Simple-1.282.0-1.1 on GA media

Severity

Moderate

Scope

1 vulnerability in this advisory, including CVE-2025-40927.

CVE-2025-40927

Recommended: 4 products

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UBUNTU-CVE-2025-40927 (CVE-2025-40927)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2025-08-29 01:15 – Updated: 2026-05-20 15:22 – Source website

Details

Severity

7.3 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-40927	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40927	REPORT
	https://lists.security.metacpan.org/cve-announce/…	REPORT
	https://github.com/manwar/CGI--Simple/commit/0c1a…	REPORT
	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CV…	REPORT
	https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7230#section-3	REPORT
	https://metacpan.org/release/MANWAR/CGI-Simple-1.…	REPORT
	https://metacpan.org/release/MANWAR/CGI-Simple-1.…	REPORT
	https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/HTTP_Resp…	REPORT
	https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21951	REPORT

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WID-SEC-W-2025-2012

Vulnerability from csaf_certbund - Published: 2025-09-09 22:00 - Updated: 2026-05-21 22:00

Summary

cPanel cPanel/WHM: Schwachstelle ermöglicht Manipulation von Dateien

Severity

Mittel

Scope

1 vulnerability in this advisory, including CVE-2025-40927.

CVE-2025-40927

Known affected: 9 products

Open the full advisory

Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.

The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base model, served locally by ML-Gateway. They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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