Microdot: HTTP response splitting in Response.set_cookie()_CVE-2026-42874

3.7 / 10

LOW

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

Description

Microdot is a minimalistic Python web framework. Prior to 2.6.1, the Response.set_cookie() method does not sanitize its string arguments, and in particular will not detect the presence of the \r\n sequence in them. This can be a potential source of header injection attacks. For a header injection attack through this issue to be possible, an attacker must first infiltrate the client (for example through an independent XSS attack), so that it can send malicious information that is destined to be stored in a cookie by the server on behalf of the victim. An attacker that infiltrates one client can only orchestrate a header injection attack for that client, all other clients that were not infiltrated are safe. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.6.1.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-42874

Source GitHub_M

Published May 11, 2026 at 19:04

Affected Product

Vendor miguelgrinberg

Product microdot

Version < 2.6.1

Affected Versions miguelgrinberg microdot < 2.6.1

CWE Classification

CWE-113

References

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