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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2023-30536 EUVD-2023-1372GHSA-q2qj-628g-vhfw

Insecure header validation in slim/psr7

Published Apr 17, 2023 · Updated Feb 5, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

slim/psr7 is a PSR-7 implementation for use with Slim 4. In versions prior to 1.6.1 an attacker could sneak in a newline (\n) into both the header names and values. While the specification states that \r\n\r\n is used to terminate the header list, many servers in the wild will also accept \n\n. An attacker that is able to control the header names that are passed to Slilm-Psr7 would be able to intentionally craft invalid messages, possibly causing application errors or invalid HTTP requests being sent out with an PSR-18 HTTP client. The latter might present a denial of service vector if a remote service’s web application firewall bans the application due to the receipt of malformed requests. The issue has been patched in version 1.6.1. There are no known workarounds to this issue. Users are advised to upgrade.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
slimphp Slim-Psr7 < 1.6.1 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 php-slim-psr7 1.6.1-1 —
Debian 13 php-slim-psr7 1.6.1-1 —
Debian 12 php-slim-psr7 1.6.1-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP6 phpMyAdmin 5.2.2-bp156.4.3.1 openSUSE-SU-2025:0081-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed phpMyAdmin 5.2.2-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2025:14688-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 phpMyAdmin 5.2.2-bp156.4.3.1 openSUSE-SU-2025:0081-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Packagist slim/psr7 >= 1.6, < 1.6.1 1.6.1 GHSA-q2qj-628g-vhfw
Packagist slim/psr7 >= 1.5, < 1.5.1 1.5.1 GHSA-q2qj-628g-vhfw
Packagist slim/psr7 < 1.4.1 1.4.1 GHSA-q2qj-628g-vhfw

Advisories 2

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