CVE-2006-5330
CRLF injection vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player plugin 9.0.16 and earlier for Windows, 7.0.63 and earlier for Linux, 7.x before 7.0 r67 for Solaris, and before 9.0.28.0 for Mac OS X, allows remote attackers to modify HTTP headers of client requests and conduct HTTP Request Splitting attacks via CRLF sequences in arguments to the ActionScript functions (1) XML.addRequestHeader and (2) XML.contentType. NOTE: the flexibility of the attack varies depending on the type of web browser being used.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-79
- EPSS score
- 24.5% (98th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-5315)
- Published
- October 17, 2006
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-5315 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- adobe / flash player
- adobe / flash player
- adobe / flash player
- adobe / flash player
References
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.html
- http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Dec/0006.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22467(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23324(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23581(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24479(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25467(Vendor Advisory)
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1737
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017078
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102932-1
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa06-01.html
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb06-18.html
- http://www.osvdb.org/29863
- http://www.rapid7.com/advisories/R7-0026.jsp
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0009.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448997/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20592
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-072A.html(US Government Resource)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4094
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0930
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1999
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29634
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11405
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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