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CVE-2020-7671: Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests (HTTP Request Smuggling)

June 10, 2020 (updated June 16, 2020)

goliath allows request smuggling attacks where goliath is used as a used as a backend with a frontend proxy that is also vulnerable. It is possible to conduct HTTP request smuggling attacks by sending the Content-Length header twice. Furthermore, invalid Transfer-Encoding headers were found to be parsed as valid which could be leveraged for TE:CL smuggling attacks.

References

  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7671

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Affected versions

All versions up to 1.0.6

Solution

Unfortunately, there is no solution available yet.

Impact 7.5 HIGH

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

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Weakness

  • CWE-444: Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling')

Source file

gem/goliath/CVE-2020-7671.yml

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