HTTP Header Injection Detection
http-header-injection is a medium severity check in the
web category, written in python.
Its source is templates/web/injection/http-header-injection.py in
cert-x-gen-templates.
What it checks
Section titled “What it checks”Detects HTTP header injection vulnerabilities through response splitting tests
Header
Section titled “Header”| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Id | http-header-injection |
| Severity | medium |
| Language | python |
| Category | web |
| Author | not recorded |
| Template version | not recorded |
| Confidence | not recorded |
| CVSS | not recorded |
| Weakness | not recorded |
| Tags | not recorded |
| Target kind | not recorded |
| Oracle | not recorded |
Run it
Section titled “Run it”To see what the copy on your machine says about itself, and to confirm it is installed at all:
cxg template info http-header-injectionThe id it prints is the one to pass anywhere a template is selected. See
cxg template for the rest of
the subcommand, Scan a target for running
a scan, and
A match is not a finding for how
to read what comes back.
Related
Section titled “Related”- Template catalog is the whole corpus.
- web is the rest of this category.
- Contribute a template is the route from a check you needed and could not find to a merged one.