CVE-2020-7238: Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests (HTTP Request Smuggling)

January 27, 2020 (updated May 27, 2021)

Netty allows HTTP Request Smuggling because it mishandles Transfer-Encoding whitespace (such as a [space]Transfer-Encoding:chunked line) and a later Content-Length header. This issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-16869.

References

netty.io/news/
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7238

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