CVE-2009-1591

MEDIUM 4.3CVE-2009-1591 · Published 08/05/2009 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2009-1591 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability affecting cgi web mailer (cgi rescue).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.1%, higher than 64.8% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
cgi web mailer cgi_rescue	`≤ 1.03`	No fix yet

Description

CRLF injection vulnerability in CGI RESCUE Web Mailer before 1.04 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers, and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) or HTTP response splitting attacks, via CRLF sequences in an unspecified web form.

References

jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN28020230/index.html · Patch
jvndb.jvn.jp/en/contents/2009/JVNDB-2009-000024.html
secunia.com/advisories/34862 · Vendor Advisory
rescue.ne.jp/whatsnew/blog.cgi/permalink/20090209180123 · Patch
securityfocus.com/bid/35047

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